From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sowmini Varadhan Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC] RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping inet/inet6 stats Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:32:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20150911193225.GA9687@oracle.com> References: <20150910213429.GH28585@oracle.com> <55F322FC.1050509@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jose.marchesi@oracle.com To: Raghavendra K T Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:30735 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751450AbbIKTch (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:32:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55F322FC.1050509@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On (09/12/15 00:22), Raghavendra K T wrote: > > Sowmini, Thanks for the patch which is more cleaner way without > breaking current behaviour. > > [ Though RTEXT_FILTER_NEED_STATS flag with reverse effect would have > helped immediately :)] Agree, but existing legacy usage will not set this flag, so I had few choices here. > /me waits for the RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS to be supported in > gccgo/golang, so that it can be used in docker newNetlinkRequest() to > exploit this. yes, I'm working on lining up the glibc bit as well (thus the cc to Jose..) I'll send out the non-rfc version in a bit.. thanks for the feedback! --Sowmini