Re: [PATCH net v3 0/4] net: add and use rx_nohandler stat counter

2016-02-06 Thread David Miller
From: Jarod Wilson 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 mu

[PATCH net v3 0/4] net: add and use rx_nohandler stat counter

2016-02-01 Thread Jarod Wilson
The network core tries to keep track of dropped packets, but some packets you wouldn't really call dropped, so much as intentionally ignored, under certain circumstances. One such case is that of bonding and team device slaves that are currently inactive. Their respective rx_handler functions retur