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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] veth: convert to 64 bit statistics
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:22:33 -0700
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On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:00:41 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:53 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Not much change, device was already keeping per cpu statistics.
> > Use recent 64 statistics interface.
> [...]
> 
> It's also going to need to use u64_stats_sync functions.
> 
> Ben.
> 

No veth is doing per-cpu update therefore the new code has the same guarantee
as the old code.