netdev - Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol

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Message-Id: <20090405.025920.75648090.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, nhorman@...driver.com, zbr@...emap.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor
 implementation & Netlink protocol

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:30:42 +0800

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:14:50PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >
> > I'd prefer that as well. The only reason to do this is to save a few
> > bytes and cycles for attribute encapsulation. I don't think this
> > matters at all, judging by the fact that I've never seen a userspace
> > implementation using message batching, the current users don't seem
> > to care about performance *that* much.
> 
> OK, let's all just keep an eye out for new struct users and see
> how it goes.

It might be about time to start working on netlink-2 seriously.
:-)

We can start treating it like a real protocol, firmly define
the endianness of everything to kill all the over-the-wire
issues, etc. and deal with this 4-byte-align stuff as well.

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