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Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:41:54 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/5] Network Drop Monitor: Add netlink protocol
	identifer

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:04:57PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:00:54PM -0500, Neil Horman (nhorman@...driver.com) wrote:
> > Because this is its own protocol.  I could have used NETLINK_GENERIC I suppose,
> > but this is a feature that, if used is going to be commonly built into the
> > kernel, I see no need to add an additional step of making userspace search for a
> > protocol registered to NETLINK_GENERIC when we dont need to.  In other words,
> > why not define my own protocol?
> 
> genetlink is alwats built into the kernel, there are access libraries
> helpers and there is really no userspace overhead. It was really
> specially designed for this kind of the tasks to eliminate netlink
> internal structure access and provide simple high-level interface.
> 
Not really about performance overhead in my view, its about programming
overhead.  Its just more work, and without any really tangible gain IMO.  Could
I use it?  Sure, but I don't really get any particular benefit out of doing so,
and from the kernel standpoint, it makes no difference either, except that its
one more header to parse before I get to my data.  I guess it just boils down to
choice for me
Neil

> -- 
> 	Evgeniy Polyakov
> 
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