On 10/2/19 3:54 PM, William Dauchy wrote:
> Hello Eric,
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:33 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/2/19 3:10 PM, William Dauchy wrote:
>> Reporting the last recorded values is really not good,
>> a packet capture will give you all this information in a non
>> racy way.
>
> Thank you for your quick answer.
> In my use case I use it on a http server where I tag my requests with
> such informations coming from tcp, which later helps to diagnose some
> issues and create some useful metrics to give me a general signal.
> Does it still sound like an invalid use case?
I would rather use a new getsockopt() to fetch this specific data,
instead of making TCP_INFO bigger for everyone :/
ss command can dump millions of sockets in busy hosts, we need to be
careful of TCP_INFO size.
