From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: lockless tx path
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:02:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289498572.17691.1599.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDC25F5.7010501@candelatech.com>
Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 09:20 -0800, Ben Greear a écrit :
> I've shown you my algorithm that requires one to know the counter
> width, and in response you offered on that will work with 32 OR 64 bits,
> as long as you make some assumptions.
>
> If you have an algorithm that can properly deal with wrapped counters of
> arbitrary bits, then post it.
>
Its only a generalization of RRD algo
No rocket science I am afraid.
You can try all the numbers in `seq 32 64` in this order, to get a
generic algo.
If you can certify all your devices are 32 or 64, then the RRD method is
OK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-11 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-10 15:41 [PATCH] macvlan: lockless tx path Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 17:39 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-10 17:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 17:53 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-10 18:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 18:40 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-10 20:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 21:04 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-10 21:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 21:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-10 21:35 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-10 22:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 22:53 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-10 23:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 23:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 23:46 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11 7:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 16:40 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11 16:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 17:20 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11 18:02 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-11-11 18:13 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11 18:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] " Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 8:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-16 18:59 ` David Miller
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