netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Rightsize IFLA_AF

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:44:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ronen.arad@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Rightsize IFLA_AF_SPEC size calculation

From: Ronen Arad <ronen.arad@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:58:30 -0700

> if_nlmsg_size() overestimates the minimum allocation size of netlink dump
> request (when called from rtnl_calcit()) or the size of the message (when called
> from rtnl_getlink()). This is because ext_filter_mask is not supported by
> rtnl_link_get_af_size() and rtnl_link_get_size().
> 
> The over-estimation is significant when at least one netdev has many VLANs
> configured (8 bytes for each configured VLAN).
> 
> This patch-set "rightsizes" the protocol specific attribute size calculation by
> propagating ext_filter_mask to rtnl_link_get_af_size() and adding optional
> filtering aware get_af_size_filtered op in struct rtnl_af_ops. Bridge module,
> which already used filtering aware sizing for notification, is enhanced to do
> the same for netlink dump requests.

There are only three implementations of get_link_af_size, so please just simply
change it's signature by adding the ext_filter_mask parameter instead of creating
a completely new operation.
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