On 10/2/18 4:54 AM, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:28:28 -0700, David Ahern wrote: >> Pull the inet6_fill_args arg up to in6_dump_addrs and move netnsid >> into it. Since IFA_TARGET_NETNSID is a kernel side filter add the >> NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED flag so userspace knows the request was honored. > > IFA_TARGET_NETNSID is not a filter. > > "Filter" returns a subset of the results. It's kind of optimization > when one is interested only in some data but not all of them. Instead > of dumping everything, going through the results and picking only the > data one is interested in, it's better to pass a filter and get only > the relevant data. But you're not really required to: you can filter in > your app.
Generically speaking a filter modifies the output based on the input. Specifying a target namespace is an input to the dump that modifies the output. Yes, you can do it in userspace which is what iproute2 has done to this point, but it is grossly inefficient and that inefficiency has implications at scale.
