From: Roopa Prabhu <ro...@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!
