From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jhs@mojatatu.com, tgraf@suug.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:11:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57154D80.9080601@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160418.122807.412860510045727785.davem@davemloft.net>
On 4/18/16, 9:28 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:35:35 -0700
>
>> This patch adds a new RTM_GETSTATS message to query link stats via netlink
>> from the kernel. RTM_NEWLINK also dumps stats today, but RTM_NEWLINK
>> returns a lot more than just stats and is expensive in some cases when
>> frequent polling for stats from userspace is a common operation.
> The following build failure needs to be resolved:
>
> security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c: In function ‘selinux_nlmsg_lookup’:
> include/linux/compiler.h:506:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_158’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: RTM_MAX != (RTM_NEWNSID + 3)
sorry, did not know about this check. sent v5 just now..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-18 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-18 5:35 [PATCH net-next v4] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-18 16:28 ` David Miller
2016-04-18 21:11 ` roopa [this message]
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