From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH]Add new IPv6 MIBs counters support through netlink Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:01:40 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040526170140.4668dc21.davem@redhat.com> References: <20040527.080828.06774575.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20040527.085812.33823249.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: xma@us.ibm.com, mashirle@us.ibm.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org In-Reply-To: <20040527.085812.33823249.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 May 2004 08:58:12 +0900 (JST) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote: > > All the counters not just IP will be eventually 64 bits. We can fix it > > later. And > > if we implement 64 counters here, there is performance issue on some > > architectures which don't support atmoic 64 for 32 bit platform. > > I strongly do not want to change interface twice to support these new > statistics. As a side note, I am worried about investing so much effort and expense if by the time we make 64-bit atomic counters work acceptably on 32-bit platforms we are all running Opteron machines :-)