[Web10g-user] Web10g TCP statistics patch - mainlining into kernel?

Dominic Hamon dominic at google.com
Fri Jan 25 13:38:59 EST 2013


Hello Valdis

I actually just finished patching a fork from the kernel github repo here:
https://github.com/dominic-mlab/linux with a view to pushing it up. I
haven't pushed a patch upstream before, so any guidance is welcome.

- dominic

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>wrote:

> I had a user who's working on tuning high-performance network file systems
> what
> the chances of upstreaming the Web10G patch to provide the RFC4898 TCP
> Extended
> Statistics MIB via netlink.
>
> Yes, it's a tad on the intrusive side, and there's performance costs
> attached -
> but so are a lot of *other* things that people use all the time for kernel
> debugging, and it's a zero-hit thing for people who don't choose to
> configure
> it into their kernel.  The added detailed status available from this will
> be
> useful for people who are doing tuning and development (consider how useful
> this would have been for the people who wrote the codel line discipline as
> part
> of the bufferbloat project).
>
> I'm willing to do the not-so-heavy lifting of getting the existing patch
> cleaned up to upstream standards and sheparded through the process, if
> there's
> any interest at all....
>
>
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