Commit d5566fd7 authored by Sowmini Varadhan's avatar Sowmini Varadhan Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarSowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ad1e7b97

include/net/rtnetlink.h

+2 −1
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@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ struct rtnl_af_ops { 
	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,

include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h

+1 −0
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@@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ struct tcamsg { 
#define RTEXT_FILTER_VF		(1 << 0)

#define RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN	(1 << 1)

#define RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN_COMPRESSED	(1 << 2)

#define	RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS	(1 << 3)



/* End of information exported to user level */

net/core/rtnetlink.c

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@@ -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

net/ipv4/devinet.c

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@@ -1654,7 +1654,8 @@ static size_t inet_get_link_af_size(const struct net_device *dev) 
	return nla_total_size(IPV4_DEVCONF_MAX * 4); /* IFLA_INET_CONF */

}



static int inet_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)

static int inet_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev,

			     u32 ext_filter_mask)

{

	struct in_device *in_dev = rcu_dereference_rtnl(dev->ip_ptr);

	struct nlattr *nla;

net/ipv6/addrconf.c

+9 −4
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@@ -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);

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