netdev - Re: [iproute2] libnetlink: reduce size of message sent to kernel

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:07:44 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2] libnetlink: reduce size of message sent to kernel

On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:50:13 +0800
Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com> wrote:

> This patch reduce the size of message sent to kernel space. Before this
> patch, for command: 'ip link show', we will sent 1056 bytes. With this
> patch, we only need to send 40 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>

Applied, and queued for next push.
Added a Fixes tag since this was introduced by changes to do selective query.