From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Shen Feng <shen@cn•fujitsu.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4/IPv6: update sysctl files
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:41:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11vs3rho9.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DC091C.6070708@cn.fujitsu.com> (Shen Feng's message of "Wed\, 08 Apr 2009 10\:17\:00 +0800")
Shen Feng <shen@cn•fujitsu.com> writes:
> Now the following sysctl files in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 are used by
> both IPv4 and IPv6.
> tcp_mem tcp_rmem tcp_wmem
> udp_mem udp_rmem_min udp_wmem_min
> Putting them in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 is not a good choice.
>
> So move tcp_mem tcp_rmem tcp_wmem to /proc/sys/net/tcp and
> move udp_mem udp_rmem_min udp_wmem_min to /poc/sys/net/udp.
How badly does this blow up when you enable sysctl_check?
You just enabled new binary sysctl mappings, which is big no-no.
Further how many user space scripts did you break that touch those
files? This is an ABI change.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 2:17 [PATCH] IPv4/IPv6: update sysctl files Shen Feng
2009-04-08 2:41 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-04-08 2:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-04-08 3:28 ` Shen Feng
2009-04-08 7:18 ` David Miller
2009-04-08 8:50 ` Shen Feng
2009-04-08 9:09 ` David Miller
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