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-File: rt_cache_stat.dif
-Apply to: kernel < 2.4.7
-Status: recommended for kernels < 2.4.7.
- already present in >= 2.4.7
-Description: tracing efficiency of routing cache
-Side effects: none
-
-File: pidentd-3.0.12.dif
-Apply to: pident-3.0.12 tree f.e. from am redhat rpm
-Status: highly recommended
-Description: Patch to pidentd allowing to use tcpdiag facility and fixing
- some bugs in original pident.
-Side effects: none. Does not break anything not depending on kernel version,
- even if tcpdiag is absent.
-Advice: not related to this patch but should be said yet.
- Do NOT configure pidentd to use threads! Use option
- "--without-threads" when doing "configure".
- pidentd is typical example of application where
- threading results in nothing but collapse of performance.
- Apparently author learned thread programming and decided
- to apply new knowledge to the first victim.
-
-File: symbol_exports.dif
-Apply to: kernel < 2.4.17
-Status: desired for kernels < 2.4.17
- not needed for kernels >= 2.4.17
-Description: exports symbols required to load tcpdiag module
- tcpdiag is builtin since 2.4.17, hence the exports
- are redundant.
-Side effects: none
-
-File: af_unix.dif
-Apply to: kernel
-Status: recommended
-Desciption: implements fragmented skb for unix sockets reducing
- vm pressure for datagram sockets and adds to /proc/net/unix
- columns allowing to monitor recv/send memory and identify
- peer of connected sockets.
-Side effects: "lsof" blames something about unix sockets.
- Not a big loss, lsof is not able to tell anything more
- clever than "can't identify protocol" for sockets anyway.
-Note: the patch affects area where one or two lines changed
- several times while 2.4. It does not depend on this,
- but unfortunately may reject. It apply cleanly to
- 2.4.17.
-