From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Volker Poplawski <volker@openbios.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libnl: initial cache fill
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A378514.1080100@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906161311.38251.volker@openbios.org>
Volker Poplawski wrote:
> Why is
> nl_cache_request_full_dump ()
> not part of the public api of libnl?
>
> Or do i miss the intended way for an initial cache fill when using the cache-
> manager?
I think you should use nl_cache_mngr_add(), which will dump the
current contents from the kernel and keep the cache up to date
using event messages. IIRC nl_cache_resync() is intended to be
used after receiving an ENOBUFS from the kernel (indicating that
an event message was lost) to trigger a resync. This is an expensive
operation however and may lead to event loss itself, so it probably
makes sense to slightly delay it after receiving an ENOBUFS to make
sure you don't make things worse.
> And BTW: What actually is part of the public api?
> The doxygen docs on libnl give no clue about what is for applications and what
> is used internally.
Everything declared in one of the headers under include/netlink/
can be considered part of the public API.
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2009-06-16 11:11 libnl: initial cache fill Volker Poplawski
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