Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets

[David Ford]

Would you (David) mind having a file in the kernel that has a 
list/description of such patches and a URL to them?  This is the kind of 
patch I would like to know is available somewhere so I don't spent a 
week looking for it when someone asks about it.

-d

>   would you be willing to accept a patch that enables per-socket
>   accounting with a CONFIG_ option?
>
>What is the point?
>
>If all the dists will enable it then everybody eats the overhead.
>If the dists don't enable it, how useful is it and what's so wrong
>with it being an external patch people just apply when they need to
>diagnose something like this?
>