# Re: \[net-next 37/40\] rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size

- From: David Miller \<davem@davemloft.net\>
- Date: 2011-06-08 07:13:26 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2011/06/10872596
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2011/06/10872516/t.md

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:09:57 +0200

> Curious. Weren't dumps supposed to be split up into small chunks and
> then delivered? Where is this splitting going wrong, and could it be
> improved to split into smaller pieces?

You can only split at the individual object boundary.

And in these cases individual single network device instances are too
large to go in one SKB.
```