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

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:42:10 +0200
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     hannes@...essinduktion.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 6/8] ipv4: fib: Add an API to request a FIB dump

Hi Dave,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:27:35AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

When you dump the FIB table your listener is already registered to the
chain, so any changes happening mid-dump will be propagated to it. I've
noted this in 5/8 and in my reply to Hannes.