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authorSowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>2015-09-11 16:48:48 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-09-15 15:25:02 -0700
commitd5566fd72ec1924958fcfd48b65c022c8f7eae64 (patch)
treefb7c5e29238657e89d33320091d8b8ae3d5f78e9 /net/ipv4
parentad1e7b97b3adb91d46f3adb70a7867a50fc274cf (diff)
rtnetlink: RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping inet/inet6 stats
Many commonly used functions like getifaddrs() invoke RTM_GETLINK to dump the interface information, and do not need the the AF_INET6 statististics that are always returned by default from rtnl_fill_ifinfo(). Computing the statistics can be an expensive operation that impacts scaling, so it is desirable to avoid this if the information is not needed. This patch adds a the RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS extended info flag that can be passed with netlink_request() to avoid statistics computation for the ifinfo path. Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/devinet.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 2d9cb1748f81..735008472844 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1654,7 +1654,8 @@ static size_t inet_get_link_af_size(const struct net_device *dev)
return nla_total_size(IPV4_DEVCONF_MAX * 4); /* IFLA_INET_CONF */
}
-static int inet_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
+static int inet_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev,
+ u32 ext_filter_mask)
{
struct in_device *in_dev = rcu_dereference_rtnl(dev->ip_ptr);
struct nlattr *nla;