Re: how to get per-socket stats on udp rx buffer overflow?

[Nivedita Singhvi]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> Integer increments are usually pretty cheap.  Considering
> accuracy is not absolutely needed (imho), then there is no
> need to lock or use special atomic increments.

Cool!

> So, I view the performance issue as not that big of a deal.  Space
> may be a bigger deal, and the /proc interface and/or IOCTLs to read
> the counters...

You could consider per-cpu interrupt/process context buckets
the way the current MIB counter increments are, if space isnt
an issue, although that might be overkill. 

> If/when I do implement, I'll be sure to make it a selectable option
> in the kernel config process...

Cool :).

> Ben
> 

thanks,
Nivedita