From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
junchangwang@gmail.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit net_device_stats
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:59:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100602145912.56ef62c2@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275514469.2115.70.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:34:29 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
> Changing the counter types to u64 for 32-bit architectures would remove
> atomicity and expose half-updated counters to userland. Changing the
> driver interface significantly so that atomicity is not needed would
> require changes to hundreds of drivers.
Another big issue is maintaining ABI compatibility for /proc and ioctl
interfaces. So bigger values would only be available through netlink,
and most applications using counters don't use netlink.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 14:19 [PATCH] r8169: Add counters tx_bytes and rx_bytes for ethtool Junchang Wang
2010-05-25 19:56 ` Francois Romieu
2010-05-26 1:01 ` Junchang Wang
2010-05-25 23:15 ` David Miller
2010-05-26 0:51 ` Junchang Wang
2010-06-02 21:34 ` 64-bit net_device_stats Ben Hutchings
2010-06-02 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-06-02 23:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-03 14:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-03 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures Ben Hutchings
2010-06-03 18:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 19:11 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-04 17:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-04 18:15 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-04 20:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-04 20:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-03 17:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] sfc: Implement 64-bit net device statistics on all architectures Ben Hutchings
2010-06-04 1:59 ` 64-bit net_device_stats Junchang Wang
2010-06-04 3:59 ` Eric Dumazet
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