Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add and delete alternative ifnames
From: Michal Kubecek <hidden>
Date: 2019-08-27 05:09:50
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 06:17:08PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
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.
We are not so far from the point where IFLA_VFINFO_LIST grows over 64 KB so that it does not fit into a netlink attribute. So we will probably have to rethink that part anyway. Michal