From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH - RFC] [1/5] 64-bit network statistics - generic net
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 14:46:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F074739.9090006@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307051449.32934.jeffpc@optonline.net>
Jeff Sipek wrote:
> Using KB would give us additional 10 bits (making the overflow at 4 TB.) I
> don't really like the idea of using MB, but the underlying idea is the same -
> 20 more bits, making the limit 4 PB.
>
> What is the consensus on this way of solving the problem?
I guess it could be useful for something like ifconfig, but serious
applications will need more precision and should deal with wraps anyway
(even on 64-bits, in my opinion..why have to fix bugs in 10 years because
we were too lazy to take the 10 minutes to make it right now).
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-05 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-04 2:31 [PATCH - RFC] [1/5] 64-bit network statistics - generic net Jeff Sipek
2003-07-04 2:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-04 6:02 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-04 3:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-04 5:27 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-04 7:05 ` bert hubert
2003-07-05 18:49 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 21:46 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2003-07-04 9:47 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-04 17:57 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 19:58 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-05 20:37 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-05 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-05 20:59 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 21:51 ` Francois Romieu
2003-07-05 22:39 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 23:44 ` Francois Romieu
2003-07-05 22:54 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-05 21:41 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-06 7:27 ` Alan Cox
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