[openib-general] Re: RFC: SDP plans

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Feb 27 16:40:54 PST 2006


 > > > - Use sysfs for statistics, entry per socket

 > > this one sounds a bit fishy.  with lots of sockets you'll eat up far
 > > too much memory I susect.  But let's look at the code once it's there.

 > Hmm. Should I stick to /proc then?

No, nothing like per-socket statistics in /proc is going to be merged
upstream.  I think the real question is whether per-socket are useful.
If they are important, and sysfs doesn't work, then another
possibility would be a netlink-based way of retrieving them.

 - R.



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