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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] veth: reduce stat overhead
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:32:51 -0800 (PST)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:02:43 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> veth stats are a bit bloated. There is no need to account transmit
> and receive stats, since they are absolutely symmetric.
> 
> Also use a per device atomic64_t for the dropped counter, as it
> should never be used in fast path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Applied.