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 <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index 18fdb98..aff6ceb 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@
int family;
int (*fill_link_af)(struct sk_buff *skb,
- const struct net_device *dev);
+ const struct net_device *dev,
+ u32 ext_filter_mask);
size_t (*get_link_af_size)(const struct net_device *dev);
int (*validate_link_af)(const struct net_device *dev,