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From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:32:24 +0100

> It isn't exactly useful behaviour though.

In your opinion.

We have tracepoints for people who want more fine grained drops
in these kinds of situations.

Also, the behavior of this statistic has existed for more than a
decade so changing it is really not in the cards.  Therefore any
discussion about what would have been the best samentic to choose from
the beginning is moot.