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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64bit counters: iproute(netlink) vs ifconfig
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:35:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213123509.7bff7b7b@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802132114110.16999@bizon.gios.gov.pl>

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:20:59 +0100 (CET)
Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Just discovered that counters returned by the "ip" tool are truncated:
> 
> # ip -s link show bond0
> 1: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
>      link/ether 00:1d:09:67:6e:2f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>      RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
>      2485605521 9010211  0       0       0       6
>      TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
>      3023237974 9345397  0       0       0       0
> 
> # ifconfig bond0
> bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:09:67:6E:2F
>            inet addr:192.168.152.62  Bcast:192.168.152.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:fe67:6e2f/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:9010367 errors:0 dropped:351 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:9345521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:2485631020 (2370.4 Mb)  TX bytes:7318232294 (6979.2 Mb)
> 
> Is it possible to get 64-bit counters in ip via netlink? Struct 
> rtnl_link_stats does not look very optimistic, as it has rx_bytes/tx_bytes 
> defined with __u32.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  				Krzysztof Olędzki

The problem is the kernel binary API is now hard coded to 32 bit values.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>



      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 20:20 64bit counters: iproute(netlink) vs ifconfig Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-02-13 20:35 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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