Commit cf072069 authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski Committed by David S. Miller
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net: suggest L2 discards be counted towards rx_dropped 



From the existing definitions it's unclear which stat to
use to report filtering based on L2 dst addr in old
broadcast-medium Ethernet.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 0f7ba7bc

include/uapi/linux/if_link.h

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@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ struct rtnl_link_stats { 
 *

 * @rx_dropped: Number of packets received but not processed,

 *   e.g. due to lack of resources or unsupported protocol.

 *   For hardware interfaces this counter should not include packets

 *   dropped by the device which are counted separately in

 *   For hardware interfaces this counter may include packets discarded

 *   due to L2 address filtering but should not include packets dropped

 *   by the device due to buffer exhaustion which are counted separately in

 *   @rx_missed_errors (since procfs folds those two counters together).

 *

 * @tx_dropped: Number of packets dropped on their way to transmission,