netdev - Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add and delete alternative ifnames

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Message-Id: <20190826.151819.804077961408964282.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     dsahern@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, sthemmin@...rosoft.com, dcbw@...hat.com,
        mkubecek@...e.cz, andrew@...n.ch, parav@...lanox.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add
 and delete alternative ifnames

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:15:52 -0700

> Weren't there multiple problems with the size of the RTM_NEWLINK
> notification already? Adding multiple sizeable strings to it won't
> help there either :S

Indeed.

We even had situations where we had to make the information provided
in a newlink dump opt-in when we added VF info because the buffers
glibc was using at the time were too small and this broke so much
stuff.

I honestly think that the size of link dumps are out of hand as-is.