From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:51:00 +0100
> I'm sorry but last_rx is not available to User Land. > > You need a kernel debugger to access it, or mess with /proc/kcore There are tons of pieces of state tracked for net devices which we don't export to userland. This one is generally useful. Right now, it may be the case that bonding is the only consumer in the kernel, but that might not always be true. I can very easily envison uses by the packet scheduler and classifiers. This optimization is truly erroneous, and I think people are going waaay over the top wrt. optimizing the loopback interface on SMP. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
