Re: "[PATCH] TCP logging" - Dhaval Varia

From: Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:32:07 +0200

>> - how does this logging facility handle the case of overload? Will it
>> block? Will it discard messages? There doesn't seem to be any facility
>> to have it handle backpressure.
>
> Oh, Good point. Ideas?

I don't have enough knowledge of the comm API to answer this: how does
it queue messages? and how does it notify callers of congestion?
This patch seems to be using a write(2) call to the raw FD, which is
blocking (?)

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    /kinkie
Received on Tue Apr 13 2010 - 13:32:16 MDT

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