netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Allow to monitor multicast cache event via rtnetlink

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Message-Id: <20121204.130914.1457976839967676240.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:09:14 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Allow to monitor multicast cache event
 via rtnetlink

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Tue,  4 Dec 2012 12:13:34 +0100

> The goal of this serie is to be able to monitor multicast activities via
> rtnetlink.
> 
> The main changes are:
>  - when user dumps mfc entries it now get all entries, included the unresolved
>    cache.
>  - kernel sends rtnetlink when it adds/deletes mfc entries.
> 
> As usual, the patch against iproute2 will be sent once the patches are included and
> net-next merged. I can send it on demand.

This looks good, applied, thanks Nicolas.

The one thing I worry about are those 64-bit statistics.  I fear that they
not be 64-bit aligned in the final netlink message.  This matters on cpus
that trap on unaligned loads/stores, such as sparc and MIPS.

Can you validate this?
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