Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tcp: ioctl type SIOCOUTQNSD returns amount of data not sent

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:12:05 +0100

* David Miller | 2011-03-09 14:09:51 [-0800]:

>From: Steffen Sledz <[email-masked]>
>Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2011 20:59:55 +0100
>
>> From: Mario Schuknecht <[email-masked]>
>> 
>> In contrast to SIOCOUTQ which returns the amount of data sent
>> but not yet acknowledged plus data not yet sent this patch only
>> returns the data not sent.
>> 
>> For various methods of live streaming bitrate control it may
>> be helpful to know how much data are in the tcp outqueue are
>> not sent yet.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Mario Schuknecht <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Steffen Sledz <[email-masked]>
>
>Applied, thanks.

A little bit late - but why not using struct tcp_info for that? The
information is already provided via getsockopt(TCP_INFO).

Hagen