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Message-Id: <20101005.144813.135535619.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	jesse@...ira.com, rl@...lgate.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:06:55 +0200

> [PATCH net-next] net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter
> 
> In various situations, a device provides a packet to our stack and we
> drop it before it enters protocol stack :
> - softnet backlog full (accounted in /proc/net/softnet_stat)
> - bad vlan tag (not accounted)
> - unknown/unregistered protocol (not accounted)
> 
> We can handle a per-device counter of such dropped frames at core level,
> and automatically adds it to the device provided stats (rx_dropped), so
> that standard tools can be used (ifconfig, ip link, cat /proc/net/dev)
> 
> This is a generalization of commit 8990f468a (net: rx_dropped
> accounting), thus reverting it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Looks good to me, applied, thanks.
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