From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: "Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireguard-tools v4 0/3] ipc: linux: kernel-side netdevice filtering
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:32:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avNHGIIOs5702an6@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312214405.589127-1-ast@fiberby.net>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 09:43:58PM +0000, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> Move device filtering to the kernel, thereby reducing netlink traffic.
>
> The first patch request kernel-side filtering.
>
> The second patch removes the old filtering code, as an
> additional step, which breaks on earlier than Linux v4.6.
>
> The third patch requests that the kernel doesn't include statistics
> in netdevice dumps.
>
> This bumps the minimum supported Linux kernel version to v4.6.
Sorry for the delay. Applied with one small cleanup:
https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/commit/?id=522f583d5304f93f71a95b81870db5fe0a74cfd6
Thank you for this!
Jason
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 21:43 [PATCH wireguard-tools v4 0/3] ipc: linux: kernel-side netdevice filtering Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2026-03-12 21:43 ` [PATCH wireguard-tools v4 1/3] ipc: linux: filter netdevices kernel-side Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2026-03-12 21:44 ` [PATCH wireguard-tools v4 2/3] ipc: linux: remove user-space netdevice filtering Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2026-03-12 21:44 ` [PATCH wireguard-tools v4 3/3] ipc: linux: skip statistics on netdevice listing Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2026-11-10 16:32 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
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