netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: Have tx_bytes count headers like rx

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Date:	Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:14:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Ashish Sharma <ashishsharma@...gle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jpa@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Have tx_bytes count headers like rx_bytes.

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:47 -0700, Ashish Sharma wrote:
> Since rx_bytes accounting does not include Ethernet Headers in
> br_input.c, excluding ETH_HLEN on the transmit path for consistent
> measurement of packet length on both the Tx and Rx chains.
[...]

I think the TX path is correct in this regard, and the RX path should be
changed to include header length.

Ben.

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