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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: 64bit stats for netdev_queue
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:35:49 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:33:42 +0200

> Since struct netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped are already
> protected by _xmit_lock, its easy to convert these fields to u64 instead
> of unsigned long.
> This completes 64bit stats for devices using them (vlan, macvlan, ...)
> 
> Strictly, we could avoid the locking in dev_txq_stats_fold() on 64bit
> arches, but its slow path and we prefer keep it simple.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Eric.