Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> 
>> OK.  What about making congestion state on TCP and SCTP more visible to
>> applications?  I seem to recall at least a couple of RFEs open in that
>> area.
>>
>> One of the nice side-effects of this work could be making it possible
>> for pfiles(1) to show the congestion state of the open sockets in live
>> applications, which I think would go a long way towards making network
>> performance problems more observable.
> 
> The new socket options will give applications quite a bit of congestion
> related information. The idea of showing additional state via pfiles
> came up in a recent discussion, IIRC. We do take observability seriously
> and are open to suggestions. It would probably be more efficient to talk
> about this once we have a draft design - always easier to lead a
> structured discussion off a frame of reference. I hope to have it
> published in early December.

Sure; I wasn't asking to discuss the details now.  I was just probing
around to figure out the scope.

+1

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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