From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Organization: Solarflare Communications
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:47:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4/IPv6: update sysctl files
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On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 02:39 +0000, Shen Feng wrote:
> Now the following sysctl files in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 are used by
> both IPv4 and IPv6.
> tcp_mem  tcp_rmem  tcp_wmem
> udp_mem  udp_rmem_min  udp_wmem_min
> Putting them in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 is not a good choice.
[...]

But this is part of the ABI to userland.  You cannot remove sysctl files
without long advance notice documented in feature-removal-schedule.txt
(if at all).

If it is possible to add the paths
/proc/sys/net/{tcp,udp} while retaining aliases under /proc/sys/net/ipv4
then that might be a workable solution.

Ben.

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