Re: ipctl - new tool for efficient read/write of net related sysctl

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> In a project of mine I need to read (and possibly set) many of the
> properties
> found under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/. This is simple enough, except
> that
> when you have hundreds of interfaces, it is really slow. In my tests
> it takes
> about 4 seconds to read a single variable for 700 interfaces. For a
> while I
> worked around this using the binary sysctl() interface, but this is
> deprecated.
> 

What about exposing these as NETLINK attributes? That would be faster
and you could do bulk updates.
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