linux/net/core
Robert Shearman aefb4d4ad8 net: AF-specific RTM_GETSTATS attributes
Add the functionality for including address-family-specific per-link
stats in RTM_GETSTATS messages. This is done through adding a new
IFLA_STATS_AF_SPEC attribute under which address family attributes are
nested and then the AF-specific attributes can be further nested. This
follows the model of IFLA_AF_SPEC on RTM_*LINK messages and it has the
advantage of presenting an easily extended hierarchy. The rtnl_af_ops
structure is extended to provide AFs with the opportunity to fill and
provide the size of their stats attributes.

One alternative would have been to provide AFs with the ability to add
attributes directly into the RTM_GETSTATS message without a nested
hierarchy. I discounted this approach as it increases the rate at
which the 32 attribute number space is used up and it makes
implementation a little more tricky for stats dump resuming (at the
moment the order in which attributes are added to the message has to
match the numeric order of the attributes).

Another alternative would have been to register per-AF RTM_GETSTATS
handlers. I discounted this approach as I perceived a common use-case
to be getting all the stats for an interface and this approach would
necessitate multiple requests/dumps to retrieve them all.

Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-17 14:38:43 -05:00
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datagram.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: fix spelling for synchronized 2014-11-18 15:26:32 -05:00
dev_ioctl.c dev_ioctl: use sizeof(x) instead of sizeof x 2014-11-18 15:27:32 -05:00
dev.c net: core: Make netif_wake_subqueue a wrapper 2017-01-12 09:18:05 -05:00
devlink.c devlink: Add E-Switch inline mode control 2016-11-24 16:01:14 -05:00
drop_monitor.c drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end 2017-01-03 11:09:44 -05:00
dst_cache.c net: dst_cache_per_cpu_dst_set() can be static 2016-03-18 17:45:08 -04:00
dst.c net: add dst_cache to ovs vxlan lwtunnel 2016-02-16 20:21:48 -05:00
ethtool.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-11-26 23:42:21 -05:00
fib_rules.c net: core: add missing check for uid_range in rule_exists. 2016-11-09 13:28:10 -05:00
filter.c bpf: allow b/h/w/dw access for bpf's cb in ctx 2017-01-12 10:00:31 -05:00
flow_dissector.c flow dissector: check if arp_eth is null rather than arp 2017-01-16 13:48:48 -05:00
flow.c Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 19:25:04 -08:00
gen_estimator.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
gen_stats.c net_sched: gen_estimator: complete rewrite of rate estimators 2016-12-05 15:21:59 -05:00
hwbm.c net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case 2016-05-25 12:35:09 -07:00
link_watch.c dev: introduce dev_get_iflink() 2015-04-02 14:04:59 -04:00
lwt_bpf.c lwt_bpf: bpf_lwt_prog_cmp() can be static 2017-01-12 10:04:40 -05:00
lwtunnel.c bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure 2016-12-02 10:51:49 -05:00
Makefile bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure 2016-12-02 10:51:49 -05:00
neighbour.c neigh: Send netevent after marking neigh as dead 2016-12-23 12:31:18 -05:00
net_namespace.c Merge branch 'stable-4.10' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-12-14 14:06:40 -08:00
net-procfs.c net: remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED support 2016-04-26 15:53:05 -04:00
net-sysfs.c net: Add support for XPS with QoS via traffic classes 2016-10-31 15:00:48 -04:00
net-sysfs.h
net-traces.c net: IPv6 fib lookup tracepoint 2015-11-22 11:54:10 -05:00
netclassid_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
netevent.c netevent: remove automatic variable in register_netevent_notifier() 2015-05-31 00:03:21 -07:00
netpoll.c netpoll: more efficient locking 2016-11-16 18:32:02 -05:00
netprio_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
pktgen.c net-tc: convert tc_verd to integer bitfields 2017-01-08 20:58:52 -05:00
ptp_classifier.c ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask 2015-11-03 11:08:22 -05:00
request_sock.c ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_max_syn_backlog knob 2016-12-29 11:38:31 -05:00
rtnetlink.c net: AF-specific RTM_GETSTATS attributes 2017-01-17 14:38:43 -05:00
scm.c scm: remove use CMSG{_COMPAT}_ALIGN(sizeof(struct {compat_}cmsghdr)) 2017-01-04 13:04:37 -05:00
secure_seq.c secure_seq: fix sparse errors 2017-01-12 15:57:10 -05:00
skbuff.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-11 14:43:39 -05:00
sock_diag.c sock_diag: align nlattr properly when needed 2016-04-26 12:00:48 -04:00
sock_reuseport.c soreuseport: do not export reuseport_add_sock() 2016-10-18 14:18:23 -04:00
sock.c net: fix AF_SMC related typo 2017-01-12 09:47:01 -05:00
stream.c net: fix sleeping for sk_wait_event() 2016-11-14 13:17:21 -05:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality 2016-12-29 15:38:35 -05:00
timestamping.c net: skb_defer_rx_timestamp should check for phydev before setting up classify 2015-07-09 14:17:15 -07:00
tso.c net: tso: add support for IPv6 2015-10-26 22:24:22 -07:00
utils.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00