From: Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:13:53 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010502111353.A13981@mail.wave.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14pfQ3-0003bG-00@the-village.bc.nu> <9bo88b$qa5$1@post.home.lunix>
In-Reply-To: <9bo88b$qa5$1@post.home.lunix>; from Ton Hospel on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:51:55AM +0000
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:51:55AM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
> Resettable counters are evil.
Perhaps "evil" should be reserved to describe counters which automatically
reset as a side effect of being read.
> I really think cisco got this right: from the commandline interface
> you can reset counters, and watch them, the SNMP counters however just
> keep going and going and going independently from this.
Except for the IP accounting table? The 'checkpoint' operation copies and
*clears* the table ...
I don't really need snapshots, just hazard-free reads. It's quite
easy to work out deltas in userspace, but I'd hate for things to be
unnecessarily painful for multiple readers.
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-01 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-17 21:48 IP Acounting Idea for 2.5 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 22:58 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 23:35 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-18 0:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-20 2:51 ` Ton Hospel
2001-05-01 23:13 ` Mark van Walraven [this message]
2001-04-18 8:16 ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-04-18 14:45 ` Jonathan Lundell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-17 23:06 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 21:25 Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 19:09 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 19:37 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-04-18 13:49 ` Michael Clark
2001-04-17 22:32 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 18:31 Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 16:57 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 12:28 Jesse Pollard
2001-04-16 23:52 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-16 22:35 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-16 23:42 ` Ian Stirling
2001-04-17 1:13 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 10:34 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-16 21:53 David Findlay
2001-04-16 0:21 ` Michael Clark
2001-04-16 0:40 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-04-16 22:46 ` David Findlay
2001-04-16 0:50 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-04-16 1:58 ` swds.mlowe
2001-04-16 1:24 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-04-16 2:07 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-16 9:43 ` Russell King
2001-04-16 22:24 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 10:29 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-17 1:43 ` Harald Welte
2001-04-17 2:37 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 6:56 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-20 16:17 ` Harald Welte
2001-04-20 21:00 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-16 11:21 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-16 2:40 ` Dax Kelson
2001-04-17 1:39 ` Harald Welte
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