Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] tcp: add a global sysctl to control TCP delayed ack

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:39:31 -0700

On 04/07/2013 06:45 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 17:09 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> I'm not applying a patch that adds a global parameter for
>> an attribute which has per-path scope.
>
> Ok, I will make it per-route.

Is setting a per-route attribute to cover the backside of an application 
for which source code is not available in this day and age really all 
that much easier than hitting that application with an LD_PRELOAD 
library to make the desired setsockopt() call?

rick jones
having flashbacks to similar conversations in other contexts in the 1990s...