On 8/26/19 4:25 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:24:38 -0600 > >> On 8/26/19 4:18 PM, David Miller wrote: >>> I honestly think that the size of link dumps are out of hand as-is. >> >> so you are suggesting new alternate names should not appear in kernel >> generated RTM_NEWLINK messages - be it a link dump or a notification on >> a change? > > I counter with the question of how much crap can we keep sticking in there > before we have to do something else to provide that information? >
Something a bit stand alone would be a better choice - like all of the VF stuff, stats, per-device type configuration. Yes, that ship has sailed, but as I recall that is where the overhead is. An attribute as basic as a name is the wrong place for that split.
