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Commit c82481f7 authored by Ido Schimmel's avatar Ido Schimmel Committed by David S. Miller
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netlink: Add field to skip in-kernel notifications

The struct includes a 'skip_notify' flag that indicates if netlink
notifications to user space should be suppressed. As explained in commit
3b1137fe

 ("net: ipv6: Change notifications for multipath add to
RTA_MULTIPATH"), this is useful to suppress per-nexthop RTM_NEWROUTE
notifications when an IPv6 multipath route is added / deleted. Instead,
one notification is sent for the entire multipath route.

This concept is also useful for in-kernel notifications. Sending one
in-kernel notification for the addition / deletion of an IPv6 multipath
route - instead of one per-nexthop - provides a significant increase in
the insertion / deletion rate to underlying devices.

Add a 'skip_notify_kernel' flag to suppress in-kernel notifications.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3de205cd
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