Re: [PATCH net-next] net-sysfs: display two backlog queue len separately

[Eric Dumazet]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:16 AM Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the guidance. Scaling is a good way to go really. But I
> just would like to separate these two kinds of limits to watch them
> closely. More often we cannot decide to adjust accurately which one
> should be adjusted. Time squeeze may not be clear and we cannot
> randomly write a larger number into both proc files which may do harm
> to some external customers unless we can show some proof to them.
>
> Maybe I got something wrong. If adding some tracepoints for those
> limits in softnet_data is not elegant, please enlighten me :)
>

I dunno, but it really looks like you are re-discovering things that
we dealt with about 10 years ago.

I wonder why new ways of tracing stuff are needed nowadays, while ~10
years ago nothing
officially put and maintained forever in the kernel was needed.