netdev - Re: [patch net-next 6/8] ipv4: fib: Add an API to request a FIB dump

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Message-Id: <20161116.112735.19078311822311561.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:27:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hannes@...essinduktion.org
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 6/8] ipv4: fib: Add an API to request a FIB
 dump

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:51:01 +0100

> I don't see a way around doing a journal like in filesystems somehow,

We really just need a sequence counter incremented for each insert/remove,
and restart the dump from the beginning if it changes mid-dump.