Re: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:07:28PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:04:05 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Is it really necessary? Our struct sock is already bloated enough 
> > as is ... If Lennert needs it for some obscure purpose it's probably
> > better if he just does it locally.
> 
> There are a couple of "__u32" holes before pointers in tcp_opt
> which is the space I was going to use for this new item.

On 64bit you mean? That doesn't help the 32bit challenged users.

> 
> tcp_opt will be getting smaller some time soon as well, since
> we can consolidate most of the congestion control knobs into
> a single set of datums or some kind of union.

ok. good. I remember the times when you made jokes about the size
of TCBs in some other OSes. I bet we beat them all now in bloat, but it's 
good that things are shrinking again.

-Andi