netdev - Re: [PATCH V2] Add flow control to the portmapper

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:40:06 +0300
From:	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:	Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
Cc:	dledford@...hat.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com, e1000-rdma@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Add flow control to the portmapper

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:23:30PM -0500, Shiraz Saleem wrote:
> From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>
> 
> During connection establishment with a large number of connections,
> it is possible that the connection requests might fail. Adding flow
> control prevents this failure. Change ibnl unicast to use netlink
> messaging with blocking to enable flow control.

You are the one user of this new inline function.
Why don't you directly call to netlink_unicast() in your ibnl_unicast()
without messing with widely visible header file?

Thanks

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