On 4/8/17 10:33 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: David Ahern <d...@cumulusnetworks.com> > Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 18:24:06 -0400 > >> per comments on the email thread about reducing notifications, the >> kernel patch for this should be reverted (and hence this iproute2 patch >> is not needed) in favor of using a bitmask. Right now there are too many >> redundant notifications to userspace. > > I must have missed something in all the discussion, which patch needs > to be reverted from my tree exactly? >
Here's the thread: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg429154.html The comment is that def12888c161 is adding a uapi that leads to way too many notifications (e.g., on a setlink). It would be more efficient (read less notifications) to have do_setlink emit a single message with the IFLA_EVENT (or something else appropriately named) that indicates what attributes changed. Right now, a change MTU leads to 3 notifications causing unnecessary churn in userspace to track what the state of the link is.
