netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 RFC] RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping inet/inet6 stats

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Message-ID: <20150911193225.GA9687@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:32:25 -0400
From:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
To:	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	jose.marchesi@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC] RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping
 inet/inet6 stats

On (09/12/15 00:22), Raghavendra K T wrote:
> 
> Sowmini, Thanks for the patch which is more cleaner way without
> breaking current behaviour.
> 
> [ Though RTEXT_FILTER_NEED_STATS flag with reverse effect  would have
> helped immediately :)]

Agree, but existing legacy usage will not set this flag, so I had 
few choices here.

> /me waits for the RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS to be supported in
> gccgo/golang, so that it can be used in docker newNetlinkRequest() to
> exploit this.

yes, I'm working on lining up the glibc bit as well (thus the cc to Jose..)
I'll send out the non-rfc version in a bit..

thanks for the feedback!

--Sowmini

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