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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [NET] 64 bit byte counter for 2.6.3
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Do it right:
> 	* use per-cpu long long for both bytes and packet counts
> 	  and change each driver ...
> 	* expose both a new 64 bit and legacy 32 bit /proc interface
> 	* no tools use /sys yet, so that needs to show long long
> 	* have both a get_stats and get_stats64 hook in netdevice so not all drivers
> 	  have to be converted at once.


Yep.

	Jeff