-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@solarflare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:07 PM
To: Rose, Gregory V; Eric Dumazet
Cc: David Miller; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] netlink: Increase netlink dump skb message size

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:24 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:21 AM
To: Rose, Gregory V
Cc: David Miller; netdev@vger.kernel.org; bhutchings@solarflare.com
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] netlink: Increase netlink dump skb message

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Le mardi 26 avril 2011 à 09:12 -0700, Rose, Gregory V a écrit :

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I'm fine with however you folks want to approach this, just give me

some

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direction.

I would just try following patch :

I'll test it out, it's certainly a lot simpler.  Perhaps I was getting a

bit too fancy.

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Ben would want to make sure it works for 127 VFs, my device does 63.

I haven't been working on SR-IOV myself so I'll pass this on to a
colleague.  Thanks, Eric.

Eric's patch works fine for the case of 63 VFs.  For most dumps it's allocating quite a bit more memory than necessary but that's not a big issue since it's transient and not held for long.

- Greg