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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rtnetlink: rtnl_setlink() and rtnl_getlink()
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:59:14 +0200
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Stephen Hemminger a =E9crit :
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:31 +0200
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Stephen, do you think we could change "ip link show dev ethX" to
>> let it use rtnl_getlink() instead of rtnl_dump_ifinfo() ?
>>
>=20
> Would work, but not sure what it gains.

It takes about one second to dump the table when we have 25.000 devices