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Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:39:09 -0700
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:28:30 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can someone please tell me why we need to do this at all?
> 
> Most of the dump messages should be close to PAGE_SIZE anyway, no?

It's moreso for the "give me a single entry" requests
than for dumps.  NLMSG_GOODSIZE is used for all cases.

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