From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] typhoon: fix a race in typhoon_do_get_stats Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100825.163724.35022984.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1282659493.2477.241.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59311 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751631Ab0HYXhJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:37:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1282659493.2477.241.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:18:13 +0200 > Its important to store 'final' values in counters, > not using them as temporary variables, > or this might break some SNMP applications. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.