Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rtnetlink: rtnl_setlink() and rtnl_getlink() changes

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:59:14 +0200

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:31 +0200
> Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen, do you think we could change "ip link show dev ethX" to
>> let it use rtnl_getlink() instead of rtnl_dump_ifinfo() ?
>>
> 
> Would work, but not sure what it gains.

It takes about one second to dump the table when we have 25.000 devices