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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	nhorman@tuxdriver.com, zbr@ioremap.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor	implementation & Netlink protocol
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:14:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D4D66A.50101@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090402150908.GA1382@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:06:40PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Yes, that should always work. For new stuff I think we should try
>> to avoid encapsulating larger structures in single attributes though
>> since it forces us to do copy everything, instead of just the types
>> that really require it (and the padding issues in case of at least
>> non-priviledged interfaces).
> 
> Are there any situations where we want to use a struct? Perhaps
> we can just ban it altogether for new code?

I'd prefer that as well. The only reason to do this is to save a few
bytes and cycles for attribute encapsulation. I don't think this
matters at all, judging by the fact that I've never seen a userspace
implementation using message batching, the current users don't seem
to care about performance *that* much.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 17:04 [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol Neil Horman
2009-03-03 18:19 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-03-03 19:21   ` Neil Horman
2009-03-03 22:14     ` David Miller
2009-03-03 22:16     ` David Miller
2009-03-04 10:06       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-04 11:00         ` David Miller
2009-04-02  9:39           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02  9:50             ` David Miller
2009-04-02  9:52             ` David Miller
2009-04-02  9:59               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 14:42                 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 14:45                   ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 14:57                     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 14:59                       ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 15:06                         ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 15:09                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 15:14                             ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-04-02 15:30                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-05  9:59                                 ` David Miller
2009-04-06 13:21                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-10  8:08                                     ` David Miller
2009-06-10 10:35                                       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-05  9:57                           ` David Miller
2009-04-05  9:56                     ` David Miller
2009-04-05  9:54                 ` David Miller
2009-03-04 11:44       ` Neil Horman
2009-03-05 19:27 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-11 16:17   ` David Miller
2009-03-11 19:51 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-13 19:10   ` David Miller

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