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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to
 dump link stats
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:43:43 -0700

> This patch adds a new RTM_GETSTATS message to query link stats via netlink
> from the kernel. RTM_NEWLINK also dumps stats today, but RTM_NEWLINK
> returns a lot more than just stats and is expensive in some cases when
> frequent polling for stats from userspace is a common operation.

With nla_align_64bit() now working properly, I've applied this and it works
on sparc64 too.

Thanks!