From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
<mlxsw@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 1/4] libnetlink: Add rta_getattr_uint()
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 09:21:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240309092158.5a8191dc@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240308194334.52236cef@kernel.org>
On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:43:34 -0800
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:58:59 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > +static inline __u64 rta_getattr_uint(const struct rtattr *rta)
> > > +{
> > > + if (RTA_PAYLOAD(rta) == sizeof(__u32))
> > > + return rta_getattr_u32(rta);
> > > + return rta_getattr_u64(rta);
> >
> > Don't understand the use case here.
> > The kernel always sends the same payload size for the same attribute.
>
> Please see commit 374d345d9b5e13380c in the kernel.
Ok, but maybe go further and handle u16 and u8
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-09 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-08 22:29 [PATCH iproute2-next 0/4] Support for nexthop group statistics Petr Machata
2024-03-08 22:29 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 1/4] libnetlink: Add rta_getattr_uint() Petr Machata
2024-03-08 22:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-09 3:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-09 17:21 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-03-09 18:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-11 10:53 ` Petr Machata
2024-03-08 22:29 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 2/4] ip: ipnexthop: Support dumping next hop group stats Petr Machata
2024-03-08 22:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-08 22:29 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 3/4] ip: ipnexthop: Support dumping next hop group HW stats Petr Machata
2024-03-08 22:29 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 4/4] ip: ipnexthop: Allow toggling collection of nexthop group HW statistics Petr Machata
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