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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/9] xen: convert to 64 bit stats
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:38:12 +0100
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On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:07 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:56:45AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:53 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Convert xen driver to 64 bit statistics interface.
> > > This driver was already counting packet per queue in a 64 bit value so not
> > > a huge change.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I think this driver will need to use u64_stats_sync.
> 
> Ian?

I'll defer to Ben on this, but the case for needing u64_stats_sync for
64 bit values seems reasonable to me.

Ian.