From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip neigh: Add ifindex to request when filtering dumps by device
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:44:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151012094412.637f1f3a@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444238604-12632-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 10:23:24 -0700
David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> Add ifindex to dump request when filtering by device. If the kernel
> supports it adding the index to the request limits the amount of data
> the kernel pushes to userpsace.
>
> The feature exists in userspace already, so no need to warn the user
> if kernel side support does not exist. Using the kernel side filter
> makes the request more efficient.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Applied to net-next branch
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2015-10-07 17:23 [PATCH] ip neigh: Add ifindex to request when filtering dumps by device David Ahern
2015-10-12 16:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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