On 09/10/2015 03:13 AM, David Miller wrote:
From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varad...@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:34:44 -0400
So the question is- who uses IFLA_INET6_STATS/IFLA_INET6_ICMP6STATS?
Is this intended for some ND/ripngd etc daemon? Doesnt seem to
be documented in rtnetlink(7), and couldnt find any users in glibc,
and google did not find any usage.
It doesn't really matter who uses it, it's there forever and we
therefore can't remove it.
But what we could do is add a flag in the netlink request which
elides the stats. GLIBC et al. could then start setting the flag.
+1 for this. Had similar thought. Wanted to use a flag at the higher
level function to avoid snmp stat walk through during i/f creation.
But above idea is better.
Other idea I had was to defer the update using work queue/completion
etc..
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