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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?
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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:24 -0400 (EDT)

> Are you saying that this behavior is okay? It is desired behavior that a
> socket option changes the way how global network counters are handled?

I'm saying that bumping the per-device tx_dropped counter in
the qdisc layer is wrong, nothing more.