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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: autosize skb lengthes
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:56:55 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:02:33 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> One known problem with netlink is the fact that NLMSG_GOODSIZE is
> really small on PAGE_SIZE==4096 architectures, and it is difficult
> to know in advance what buffer size is used by the application.
> 
> This patch adds an automatic learning of the size.
> 
> First netlink message will still be limited to ~4K, but if user used
> bigger buffers, then following messages will be able to use up to 16KB.
> 
> This speedups dump() operations by a large factor and should be safe
> for legacy applications.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

This looks great, applied, thanks!