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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, jhs@mojatatu•com,
	tgraf@suug•ch, nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:53:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5716FD40.7060408@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160419.184920.1193931883675948435.davem@davemloft.net>

On 4/19/16, 3:49 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:05:00 -0700
>
>> ok, will do. one thing though, for GETSTATS, if I need a pad
>> attribute like IFLA_PAD, I will need to add a new stats attribute
>> IFLA_STATS_PAD and burn a bit for it in filter_mask too.  In which
>> case, I am wondering if we should live with the copy. I will take
>> any suggestions here.
> I don't think the copy is appropriate, especially if the existing full
> link state dump gets away without it.  We're adding this facility for
> performance reasons after all.
>
> You have several options to avoid wasting filter mask space. For
> example, you could use IFLA_STATS_UNSPEC, which should be OK since
> only new applications will use these.
>
> Or you could make IFLA_STATS_PAD the first attribute, and define the
> filter mask as relative to it.  Ie. IFLA_STATS_LINK_64 uses bit
> (IFLA_STATS_LINK_64 - IFLA_STATS_PAD), etc.
ok ack, makes sense.

thanks,
Roopa

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-20  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-18 21:10 [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-18 21:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  0:57   ` David Miller
2016-04-19  1:48     ` David Miller
2016-04-19  2:22       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  2:40         ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19  3:49           ` David Miller
2016-04-19  3:52       ` David Miller
2016-04-19 10:09         ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-19 10:48           ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2016-04-19 18:23           ` David Miller
2016-04-19 19:41             ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20  1:53               ` David Ahern
2016-04-20  7:32                 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 12:48                   ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-20 13:17                     ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 13:34                       ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-20 20:13                         ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-19  2:30     ` roopa
2016-04-19  3:41 ` David Miller
2016-04-19  4:17   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  4:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  5:03     ` David Miller
2016-04-19 18:31       ` David Miller
2016-04-19 18:45         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 18:47         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 19:08           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 23:50             ` David Miller
2016-04-20  3:54               ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-20  8:57               ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] netlink: fix test alignment in nla_align_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  9:33                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20  9:44                     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  9:57                       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 10:14                         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 14:31                         ` [PATCH net-next] net: fix HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS typos Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 15:03                           ` David Miller
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] libnl: add more helpers to align attribute on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] ipmr: align RTA_MFC_STATS " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] ip6mr: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] libnl: add more helpers to align attributes on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] rtnl: use the new API to align IFLA_STATS* Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] ipmr: align RTA_MFC_STATS on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] ip6mr: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 18:28                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute David Miller
2016-04-21 22:00                     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-22  5:31                       ` David Miller
2016-04-19 19:05         ` [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19 22:49           ` David Miller
2016-04-20  3:53             ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2016-04-19  4:43   ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19  7:45   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 16:00     ` David Miller
2016-04-19  8:26 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 19:55   ` Paul Moore
2016-04-19 20:40     ` Roopa Prabhu

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