From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mlx4_en: Move to SW counters for total bytes and packets Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090421.015012.120347162.davem@davemloft.net> References: <49EC859C.700@mellanox.co.il> <49EC87AB.1070009@mellanox.co.il> <49EC87FE.4010000@mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tziporet@mellanox.co.il To: yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43179 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756023AbZDUIuU (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:50:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49EC87FE.4010000@mellanox.co.il> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Yevgeny Petrilin Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:34:38 +0300 > The per ring counters are implemented in SW. Now moving to have the total > counters as the sum of all rings. This way the numbers will always be consistent > and we no longer depend on HW buffer size limitations for those counters > that can be insufficient in some cases. > > Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin Applied.