From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] e1000: update netstats traffic counters realtime Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:51:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20071113.205123.230227348.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20071113231110.13177.27339.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20071113231117.13177.49045.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com To: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46455 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757474AbXKNEvX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:51:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071113231117.13177.49045.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Auke Kok Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:11:17 -0800 > formerly e1000/e1000e only updated traffic counters once every > 2 seconds with the register values of bytes/packets. With newer > code however in the interrupt and polling code we can real-time > fill in these values in the netstats struct for users to see. > > Signed-off-by: Auke Kok Applied to netdev-2.6, thanks.