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/ipv6/addrconf.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6') diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 030fefdc9aed..75d3dde32c69 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -4729,7 +4729,8 @@ static void snmp6_fill_stats(u64 *stats, struct inet6_dev *idev, int attrtype, } } -static int inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_dev *idev) +static int inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_dev *idev, + u32 ext_filter_mask) { struct nlattr *nla; struct ifla_cacheinfo ci; @@ -4749,6 +4750,9 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_dev *idev) /* XXX - MC not implemented */ + if (ext_filter_mask & RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS) + return 0; + nla = nla_reserve(skb, IFLA_INET6_STATS, IPSTATS_MIB_MAX * sizeof(u64)); if (!nla) goto nla_put_failure; @@ -4784,14 +4788,15 @@ static size_t inet6_get_link_af_size(const struct net_device *dev) return inet6_ifla6_size(); } -static int inet6_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev) +static int inet6_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev, + u32 ext_filter_mask) { struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev); if (!idev) return -ENODATA; - if (inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(skb, idev) < 0) + if (inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(skb, idev, ext_filter_mask) < 0) return -EMSGSIZE; return 0; @@ -4946,7 +4951,7 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_dev *idev, if (!protoinfo) goto nla_put_failure; - if (inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(skb, idev) < 0) + if (inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs(skb, idev, 0) < 0) goto nla_put_failure; nla_nest_end(skb, protoinfo); -- cgit v1.2.3