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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: net: add a core netdev->tx_dropped
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:45:56 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Dropping packets in __dev_queue_xmit() when transmit queue
> is stopped (NIC TX ring buffer full or BQL limit reached) currently
> outputs a syslog message.
> 
> It would be better to get a precise count of such events available in
> netdevice stats so that monitoring tools can have a clue.
> 
> This extends the work done in caf586e5f23ce
> ("net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.