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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize loopback stats
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:49:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42374A6F.50300@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4237423E.2040505@us.ibm.com>

Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
>>   This patch optimizes the loopback driver's statistics by using a single
>> counter for rx and tx stats instead of one for rx and one for tx.  It 
>> also
>> adds unlikely() to the test for TSO since it's no longer supported by 
>> default.
>> (Maybe the TSO code should be bracketed by "#if 0" ?)
> 
> 
> Hmm, some of us want those counters separate - if this is really
> needed, could it be a configurable option, please?

Or we could live with the appropriate patches to ip, ifconfig,
reporting them separately (halving them). That would be fine.

thanks,
Nivedita

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-15 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-15 19:56 [PATCH] Optimize loopback stats Chuck Ebbert
2005-03-15 20:14 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-03-15 20:49   ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-15 23:15 Chuck Ebbert
2005-03-16  0:09 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-03-16  0:18   ` Nivedita Singhvi

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