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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to
 dump link stats
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:27:04 -0700
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On 4/20/16, 1:08 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:43:43 -0700
>
>> This patch adds a new RTM_GETSTATS message to query link stats via netlink
>> from the kernel. RTM_NEWLINK also dumps stats today, but RTM_NEWLINK
>> returns a lot more than just stats and is expensive in some cases when
>> frequent polling for stats from userspace is a common operation.
> With nla_align_64bit() now working properly, I've applied this and it works
> on sparc64 too.
>
> Thanks!
Thank you.