From: Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:51:03 -0500
... > It seems additional counters never came to fruition, so this is a first > attempt at creating one of them, so that we stop calling these drops, > which for users monitoring rx_dropped, causes great alarm, and renders the > counter much less useful for them. > > This adds a sysfs statistics node and makes the counter available via > netlink. > > Additionally, I'm not certain if this set qualifies for net, or if it > should be put aside and resubmitted for net-next after 4.5 is put to > bed, but I do have users who consider this an important bugfix. > > This has been tested quite a bit on x86_64, and now lightly on i686 as > well, to verify functionality of updates to netdev_stats_to_stats64() > on 32-bit arches. Series applied, thanks Jarod.
