Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] socket statistics for ss

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:31:44 -0700

On Wed, 9 May 2018 10:18:23 -0700
Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 05/09/2018 08:22 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure if these patches are worth applying.
> > The 'ss -s' command has had missing values since 2.4 kernel.
> > And the first complaints came in only this year.
> > 
> > Another alternative would be just to remove these fields from ss -s
> > output and move on.
> >   
> 
> Anyway your patches are not netns ready, so lets remove these fields from ss.
> 
> Or you have to spend _much_ more time on writing and testing the kernel part.
> 
> Thanks.

The patches only expose the existing TCP socket accounting infrastructure.
Several other pieces that sockstat has are not netns aware.
That is a completely different problem.