On Thu, 2006-09-02 at 15:21 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Andi Kleen a écrit : > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 14:53, John W. Linville wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> > >>> Same would probably apply to schedulers and classifiers. So I cannot > >>> imagine a good use of this field. What does bonding use it for anyways? > >> ARP-based monitoring of link activity. > > > > That's a pretty obscure use to justify a precious full field in sk_buff > > Your question was about bonding and its last_rx use. > > This field is not part of sk_buff but 'struct netdevice' :) > > If it were in sk_buff, I would not desesperatly try to convince David.
I think it is useful -as a stat- to know when the last time something was received or sent on a netdevice. I would actually be suprised if theres no SNMP MIB that requires this information. cheers, jamal - 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
