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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to count tx and rx bytes?
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:54:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031215145422.58a78551.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDE39E3.4000408@candelatech.com>

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:46:59 -0800
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> Maybe the stats-polling code in the driver could do the necessary subtraction
> to remove the FCS from the results (ie, subtract (packets-since-last-sample * 4) bytes.

The whole reason to use the chip internally computed stats is to avoid
having to do "stats->foo++" at all, your suggestion basically eliminates
this purpose.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-15 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-15 20:03 How to count tx and rx bytes? Ben Greear
2003-12-15 22:17 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-15 22:40   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-15 23:19     ` Donald Becker
2003-12-15 23:22       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-15 22:46   ` Ben Greear
2003-12-15 22:54     ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-12-15 23:17       ` Ben Greear
2003-12-16  0:08         ` David S. Miller
2003-12-16 13:38 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-12-16 15:45   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-16 19:38     ` Ben Greear

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