On 8/26/19 4:25 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: David Ahern <redacted>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:24:38 -0600

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On 8/26/19 4:18 PM, David Miller wrote:

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I honestly think that the size of link dumps are out of hand as-is.

so you are suggesting new alternate names should not appear in kernel
generated RTM_NEWLINK messages - be it a link dump or a notification on
a change?

I counter with the question of how much crap can we keep sticking in there
before we have to do something else to provide that information?

Something a bit stand alone would be a better choice - like all of the
VF stuff, stats, per-device type configuration. Yes, that ship has
sailed, but as I recall that is where the overhead is.

An attribute as basic as a name is the wrong place for that split.