netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] netem: trace enhancement

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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:03:05 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ariane Keller <ariane.keller@....ee.ethz.ch>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	Rainer Baumann <baumann@....ee.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] netem: trace enhancement

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Still interested in this. I got part way through integrating it but had
> concerns about the API from the application to netem for getting the data.
> It seemed like there ought to be a better way to do it that could handle large
> data sets better, but never really got a good solution worked out (that is why
> I never said anything).

Would spreading them over multiple netlink messages work? A different,
slightly ugly possibility would be to simply use copy_from_user, netlink
is synchronous now (still better than using configfs IMO).


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