netdev - Re: netlink stats: Ability to get stats for a single device?

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Message-ID: <1288121720.2652.15.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:35:20 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netlink stats:   Ability to get stats for a single device?

Le mardi 26 octobre 2010 à 12:31 -0700, Ben Greear a écrit :
> From what I can tell, it's impossible to request stats for a single
> network device via netlink.  When you have thousands of interfaces,
> this means a lot of wasted effort to get stats for a particular
> device.
> 
> Am I missing something, or do I just need to write up a patch
> to have netlink pay attention to the ifindex?
> 

Its already done

rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_GETLINK, rtnl_getlink, rtnl_dump_ifinfo); 



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