From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080601.223938.193701581.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080531195702.0b879dd1.billfink@mindspring.com> <20080601014620.GG30769@solarflare.com> <20080601164614.012fe1f6.billfink@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jimi@sngx.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: billfink@mindspring.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50065 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750748AbYFBFjm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:39:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080601164614.012fe1f6.billfink@mindspring.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Bill Fink Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:46:14 -0400 > Another issue that occurred to me is if multiple people are working > on troubleshooting a network problem, how do we insure that they all > get a consistent view of the stats? Some of them definitely won't get a consistent view if one of them triggers this undesirable statistic clearing knob.