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Eric Dumazet says:

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rtnetlink: RTNL avoidance in rtnl_getlink() and rtnl_dump_ifinfo()

Many shell scripts invoke iproute2 commands specifying a device by
its name.

This series improves their performance avoiding RTNL acquisition
for their (repeated) name->index conversion.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525083542.1565964-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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