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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: 32 bit net stats
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:04:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379973869.3165.27.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5240B771.8040307@mojatatu.com>

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 17:49 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> Something broke in sending of 32 bit version of netstat around the
> time 64 bit version was improved. I went back as far as 3.8.0 to recent
> kernels. Could have been earlier.
> The work around in user space is when you see 64 bit stats just ignore
> the 32 bit version (which iproute2 does and so am i;->).
> 
> But assumming there are tools out there that know only of 32 bit
> variant they will get bad stats. Here's a compile tested only patch.
> Wont have to test anything for at least another day.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 

Hi Jamal

Sorry, this doesnt make sense to me.

Existing code seems to be fine.

Which driver do you use ?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-23 21:49 BUG: 32 bit net stats Jamal Hadi Salim
2013-09-23 22:04 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-09-23 22:15   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2013-09-23 22:42     ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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