At 09:34 PM 9/06/2002 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
Every argument I hear is one out of lazyness. And that is not a
reason to add something. Simply put, I don't want to add all of this
per-socket counter bumping that only, at best, 1 tenth of 1 percent
of people will use. This means that the rest of the world eats the
overhead just for this small group that actually uses it.
would you be willing to accept a patch that enables per-socket accounting
with a CONFIG_ option?
to my mind, i can see a number of perfectly valid scenarios.
one is for streaming-media applications which could use retransmissions as
an indication to buffer more data and/or switch to a different bitrate.
another is for a http proxy which has multiple outgoing interfaces which
are multihomed via different providers (and some via simplex satellite).
retransmissions woud be a nice metric to use for determining the weightings
between using different interfaces.
cheers,
lincoln.
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