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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/4] net: add and use rx_nohandler stat counter
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From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Date: Mon,  1 Feb 2016 18:51:03 -0500

 ...
> It seems additional counters never came to fruition, so this is a first
> attempt at creating one of them, so that we stop calling these drops,
> which for users monitoring rx_dropped, causes great alarm, and renders the
> counter much less useful for them.
> 
> This adds a sysfs statistics node and makes the counter available via
> netlink.
> 
> Additionally, I'm not certain if this set qualifies for net, or if it
> should be put aside and resubmitted for net-next after 4.5 is put to
> bed, but I do have users who consider this an important bugfix.
> 
> This has been tested quite a bit on x86_64, and now lightly on i686 as
> well, to verify functionality of updates to netdev_stats_to_stats64()
> on 32-bit arches.

Series applied, thanks Jarod.