Re: [PATCH net-next v2] gtp: add notification mechanism

[Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>]

Hi Nicolas,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:47:54AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> > Sending (unsolicited) notifications about all of those seems quite heavyweight to me.
>
> There is no 'unsolicited' notifications with this patch. Notifications are sent
> only if a userspace application has subscribed to the gtp mcast group.
> ip routes or conntrack entries are notified in the same way and there could a
> lot of them also (more than 100k conntrack entries for example).

Ok, thanks for reminding me of that.  However, even if those events are
not sent/multicasted, it still looks like the proposed patch is
unconditionally allocating a netlink message and filling it with
information about the PDP.  That alone looks like adding significant
overhead to every user - even the majority of current use cases where
nobody is listening/subscribing to that multicast group.

Wouldn't it make sense to only allocate + fill those messages if we
actually knew a subscriber existed?

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- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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