Erez Zilber wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Mike Christie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ulrich Windl wrote: >>> On 19 Nov 2009 at 11:07, Erez Zilber wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Ulrich Windl >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi! >>>>> >>>>> Wouldn't it be more obvious to calculate the average delay to a ping >>>>> request? >>>>> (Possibly exponential average as for the system loads) (min and Max would >>>>> be good >>>>> as well, but standard deviation probably requires use of the FPU, so >>>>> that's not >>>>> possible in kernel modules (AFAIK)). >>>> It's in userspace, so (almost) everything is possible. It's nice to >>>> have counters, average delay etc, but I want to be able to know >>>> exactly when bad things almost happened (i.e. timeout almost expired). >>>> Counters/average delay will not help me. >>> I thought you want to tune the timeouts. So if properly tuned, the kernel >>> will log >>> when when your measurements are unusual (i.e. timeout exceeded). >>> >> I think that is what I wanted. I think Erez wants something a little >> different, right Erez? > > I think that it would be nice if we had both: > 1. The average delay of a ping request. > 2. A list of ping requests that almost timed out with some helpful > info (when was the ping sent and how much time until we got a > response). With this information, you can understand and debug the > whole system: you can check your target and see what caused it to be > so slow on that specific time, you can see if your network was very > busy during that time etc. >
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