From d5566fd72ec1924958fcfd48b65c022c8f7eae64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sowmini Varadhan Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:48:48 -0400 Subject: rtnetlink: RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping inet/inet6 stats Many commonly used functions like getifaddrs() invoke RTM_GETLINK to dump the interface information, and do not need the the AF_INET6 statististics that are always returned by default from rtnl_fill_ifinfo(). Computing the statistics can be an expensive operation that impacts scaling, so it is desirable to avoid this if the information is not needed. This patch adds a the RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS extended info flag that can be passed with netlink_request() to avoid statistics computation for the ifinfo path. Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index a466821d1441..e5452296ec2f 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, if (!(af = nla_nest_start(skb, af_ops->family))) goto nla_put_failure; - err = af_ops->fill_link_af(skb, dev); + err = af_ops->fill_link_af(skb, dev, ext_filter_mask); /* * Caller may return ENODATA to indicate that there -- cgit v1.2.1