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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
To: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>, Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, andy@greyhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:08:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110601200854.GD2784@psychotron.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE6919F.3030304@gmail.com>

Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:23:11PM CEST, nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com wrote:
>Le 01/06/2011 18:31, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
>>This patch allows to reset failure counters for all enslaved devices.
>
>Hi Jiri,
>
>Why do we need a way to reset those counters? What is the problem
>with having those counters monotonically increase until the system is
>rebooted? Do we have a way to reset other network statistics
>(/sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/* for example)?

Well, it's handy to be able to clear this counters when you resolve
a problem so future issues are crearly seen as non-zero.				   
				   
>
>Except from this "do we need this feature" question, the code sounds good to me.
>
>Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
>
>	Nicolas.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01  9:40 [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 13:28 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 13:53   ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 16:13     ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-06-01 16:31       ` [patch net-next-2.6 v2] " Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 16:41         ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 19:23         ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-06-01 20:08           ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2011-06-01 20:12             ` David Miller
2011-06-01 20:27               ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 19:03       ` [patch net-next-2.6] " David Miller
2011-06-01 19:11         ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 19:22           ` David Miller
2011-06-01 19:53             ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-06-01 20:22             ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 19:34           ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-06-01 20:07             ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 13:51 ` WANG Cong

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