From: Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH - RFC] [1/5] 64-bit network statistics - generic net
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 16:59:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307051700.32533.jeffpc@optonline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F0737D1.5090109@pobox.com>
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On Saturday 05 July 2003 16:40, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The net stats are already unsigned long internally.
>
> 64-bit case is handled quite nicely today, thanks :)
I wonder why jiffies are not unsigned long...the 64-bit case would have been
handled quite nicely too... :-)
> I'm such a 64-bit bigot that "buy a 64-bit computer" is a solution I
> commonly suggest, and it seems to fit well here, too.
I wish I had the resources to get one... :-(
The thing is that x86 is here to stay for quite some time. Even if 64-bit
processors take over the market, you will have so many "old" computers that
can:
- - be thrown out
- - donated to some institution
- - converted to routers, and other "embedded" systems
Plus, they will be dirt cheap.
> Jeff, wondering if Intel will bother to compete w/ Athlon64
Intel screwed up with Itanium, if it had "legacy" support, they would have
been better off...
Jeff.
- --
Defenestration n. (formal or joc.):
The act of removing Windows from your computer in disgust, usually followed
by the installation of Linux or some other Unix-like operating system.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-05 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E19YtAq-0006Xf-00@calista.inka.de>
2003-07-05 20:37 ` [PATCH - RFC] [1/5] 64-bit network statistics - generic net Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-05 20:59 ` Jeff Sipek [this message]
2003-07-05 21:51 ` Francois Romieu
2003-07-05 22:39 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 23:44 ` Francois Romieu
2003-07-05 22:54 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-05 21:41 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-06 7:27 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307032005340.8468-100000@home.osdl.org>
2003-07-04 5:27 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 18:49 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-05 21:46 ` Ben Greear
[not found] <200307032231.39842.jeffpc@optonline.net>
2003-07-04 2:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-04 6:02 ` Jeff Sipek
[not found] ` <20030704094745.GG29233@lug-owl.de>
2003-07-04 17:57 ` Jeff Sipek
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