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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] SOCK: add raw6 drops counter
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:45:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473A998D.8050101@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473A8C2B.2040709@cosmosbay.com>

Eric Dumazet said the following on 2007-11-14 13:48:
>> diff -Nurp linux-2.6.24-rc2.org/net/ipv6/raw.c
>> linux-2.6.24-rc2/net/ipv6/raw.c
>> --- linux-2.6.24-rc2.org/net/ipv6/raw.c    2007-11-09
>> 16:38:05.000000000 +0800
>> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/net/ipv6/raw.c    2007-11-14 09:46:54.000000000
>> +0800
>> @@ -354,14 +354,14 @@ static inline int rawv6_rcv_skb(struct s
>>  {
>>      if ((raw6_sk(sk)->checksum || sk->sk_filter) &&
>>          skb_checksum_complete(skb)) {
>> -        /* FIXME: increment a raw6 drops counter here */
>> +        atomic_inc(&sk->sk_drops);   
> 
> I am not sure the comment was refering to a per socket counter here.
> 
> If the frame checksum is bad, we can not be sure the socket is OK, since
> the garbaged bits could be in the tuple that identify the socket.
> 
> Maybe here we want to increment a global raw6 drop counter (well, for
> the given ipv6 instance)
> 

What the /proc/net/raw6 shows is statistical information about raw socket
in IPv6 stack. And the information is per socket per row. 
So I think it's better to count it to per socket.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13  9:57 [PATCH] IPV4: add raw drops counter Wang Chen
2007-11-13 11:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-14  1:27   ` Wang Chen
2007-11-14  6:00     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-14  3:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] SOCK: " Wang Chen
2007-11-14  3:15   ` [PATCH 2/2] SOCK: add raw6 " Wang Chen
2007-11-14  4:31     ` David Miller
2007-11-14  4:50       ` Wang Chen
2007-11-14  5:48     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-14  6:45       ` Wang Chen [this message]
2007-11-14  4:30   ` [PATCH 1/2] SOCK: add raw " David Miller

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