From: r...@tardy.usa.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2015 11:10:37 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com>
> 
> Add an explicit neighbour table overflow message (ratelimited) and
> statistic to make diagnosing neighbour table overflows tractable in
> the wild.
> 
> Diagnosing a neighbour table overflow can be quite difficult in the wild
> because there is no explicit dmesg logged.  Callers to neighbour code
> seem to use net_dbg_ratelimit when the neighbour call fails which means
> the "base message" is not emitted and the callback suppressed messages
> from the ratelimiting can end-up juxtaposed with unrelated messages.
> Further, a forced garbage collection will increment a stat on each call
> whether it was successful in freeing-up a table entry or not, so that
> statistic is only a hint.  So, add a net_info_ratelimited message and
> explicit statistic to the neighbour code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com>

Looks fine, applied, thanks Rick.
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