netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] net: UDP repair mode for retrieving the send queue of corked UDP socket

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Message-ID: <41f1fe372f1fafbb8b6cd9b861586fca569a4009.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:04:37 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Leşe Doru Călin 
        <lesedorucalin01@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net: UDP repair mode for retrieving the send queue
 of corked UDP socket

On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 16:38 +0300, Leşe Doru Călin wrote:
> Should I move this functionality in a getsockopt or ioctl syscall, so it does not interfere with other syscalls?

Yes, please. As suggested by Eric, please avoid additional
code/conditionals in fast-path.

Thanks,

Paolo

p.s. sorry for the late reply. The current situation does not allow for
low latency.