rtnetlink: new filter RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN_COMPRESSED

This filter is same as RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN except that it tries
to compress the consecutive vlans into ranges.

This helps on systems with large number of configured vlans.

Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
index d81f22d5b39090aa109edb07c24f51517b7828fa..a1d18593f41ea1d0db0272e6dc305a22949607bc 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
@@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ struct tcamsg {
 /* New extended info filters for IFLA_EXT_MASK */
 #define RTEXT_FILTER_VF                (1 << 0)
 #define RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN    (1 << 1)
+#define RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN_COMPRESSED (1 << 2)
 
 /* End of information exported to user level */