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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, matts@ksu.edu, shemminger@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64 bit netdev stats counter
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:27:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2F57BD.E9ABBBCA@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020712.150607.35506145.davem@redhat.com

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>    Date: 13 Jul 2002 00:20:53 +0100
> 
>    gcc will output
> 
>                 increment low 32bit
>                 if zero
>                         increment high
> 
>    Which means we can rapidly get 2^32 out of sync
> 
> True and this equals the "fix" suggested C code involving
> two 32-bit counters that the original author posted :-)
> 

Could you make the counters per-cpu and only add them all up
in the rare case where someone wants to read the stats?

And then change all the drivers ;)

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-12 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1026503694.26819.4.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
2002-07-12 22:02 ` 64 bit netdev stats counter Matt Stegman
2002-07-12 21:58   ` David S. Miller
2002-07-12 23:20     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 22:06       ` David S. Miller
2002-07-12 22:27         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-07-12 22:28           ` David S. Miller
2002-07-12 22:31       ` Chris Friesen
2002-07-13  2:18         ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13  0:50     ` kuznet
2002-07-12 19:12 Matt Stegman

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