From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:13 -0800
> This is ancient original iproute2 code that dumpster dives into
> slabinfo to get summary statistics on active objects.
>
> 1) open sockets (sock_inode_cache)
The sockets inuse counter from /proc/net/sockstat is really
suffic
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:15:02 -0500 (EST)
David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:04:52 -0800
>
> > This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was
> > reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API
> > to do this, and one can argue t
From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:04:52 -0800
> This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was
> reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API
> to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must
> not change.
Please elaborate what kind of
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:04:52 -0800
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was
> reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API
> to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must
> not change.
>
> Therefore this patch set add
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was
> reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API
> to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must
> not change.
>
> Therefore this patch se
This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was
reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API
to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must
not change.
Therefore this patch set adds a flag to slab to give another
reason to prevent merging, and then uses
