From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: Add 64bit statistics Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:18:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20111118091843.GA30303@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20111117064826.GA4429@Desktop-Junchang> <20111117093635.GA9112@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nic_swsd@realtek.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Junchang Wang Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:38234 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754292Ab1KRJYK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:24:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Junchang Wang : [...] > I'm not sure which hardware stats registers are accurate. See rtl8169_gstrings. > Besides, it seem r8169.c are also designed for other chipsets (8129?). Afaik the basic statistics are consistent through the 816x and 810{2, 3} family. > I would like other people who are quite familiar with those chipsets > to do this job. > > Is that OK ? Thanks. Fair enough. Eric's "ethtool -S = hardware, ip -s = software" remark makes sense anyway. So there is no reason to be retentive. -- Ueimor