From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH] b44: add 64 bit stats Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:12:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1342797127.2626.7427.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1342337165.3265.10640.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1342759989.2626.5472.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1342761865.2626.5572.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1342794821.2678.8.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kevin Groeneveld , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:46737 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874Ab2GTPMN (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:12:13 -0400 Received: by bkwj10 with SMTP id j10so3482418bkw.19 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:12:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1342794821.2678.8.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 15:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Don't we need an _irq variant for drivers that support netpoll? > netpoll is such a hack I would not bother having a 0.000001 % chance to get a "about to be wrapped 64bit counter" on a 32bit cpu.