From: Corinna Vinschen
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:11:48 +0200
> The multicast hardware counter on 8168/8111 chips is only 32 bit while the
> statistics in struct rtnl_link_stats64 are 64 bit. Given that statistics
> are requested on an irregular basis, an overflow of the hardware counter
> can go
The multicast hardware counter on 8168/8111 chips is only 32 bit while the
statistics in struct rtnl_link_stats64 are 64 bit. Given that statistics
are requested on an irregular basis, an overflow of the hardware counter
can go unnoticed. To count even very large numbers of multicast packets
reli
