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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: e1000: prevent statistics from getting garbled during
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:36:30 -0800
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> 2) What's wrong with taking deltas? Typical through-put performance
> measurement is done by pre-loading the pipes (i.e. running for
> a few minutes wihtout measuring, then starting the measurement).
> I'd think that snapshotting the numbers would be easier, and is 
> trivially doable in user-space. I guess I don't understand why 
> you need a new kernel featre to imlement this.

ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/tools/beforeafter.tar.gz

Not my code, I've used it with success against ethtool -S output.

rick jones