From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip neigh: Add ifindex to request when filtering dumps by device Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:44:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20151012094412.637f1f3a@urahara> References: <1444238604-12632-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com To: David Ahern Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:34411 "EHLO mail-pa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751725AbbJLQoA (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:44:00 -0400 Received: by padhy16 with SMTP id hy16so158210987pad.1 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:43:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1444238604-12632-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 10:23:24 -0700 David Ahern 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 Applied to net-next branch