On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:33:45PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> From: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
>
> With commit 72b365e8e0fd ("libnetlink: Double the dump buffer size")
> we doubled the buffer size to support more VFs. But the VFs number is
> increasing all the time. Some customers even use more than 200 VFs now.
>
> We could not double it everytime when the buffer is not enough. Let's just
> not hard code the buffer size and malloc the correct number when running.
>
> Introduce function rtnl_recvmsg() to always return a newly allocated buffer.
> The caller need to free it after using.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>
> ---
> lib/libnetlink.c | 114
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz>
