netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/4] inet: Make tunnel RX/TX byte counters more consistent

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Message-Id: <20081009.120327.119334632.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:03:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, philipc@...pgear.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/4] inet: Make tunnel RX/TX byte counters more
 consistent

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:23:08 +0800

> inet: Make tunnel RX/TX byte counters more consistent
> 
> This patch makes the RX/TX byte counters for IPIP, GRE and SIT more
> consistent.  Previously we included the external IP headers on the
> way out but not when the packet is inbound.
> 
> The new scheme is to count payload only in both directions.  For
> IPIP and SIT this simply means the exclusion of the external IP
> header.  For GRE this means that we exclude the GRE header as
> well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.
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