From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:34:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483EA2D1.8050603@sngx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080528221118.63da4092.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> You didn't provide a reason from adding this feature to the kernel.
Sorry, my reasoning was in my original patch only. The ability to reset network
counters is, in my experience, one of the first things you do when trying to
troubleshoot networking issues - especially when you have incrementing errors.
> Many of the kernel's accounting accumulators cannot be reset. We
> handle that in userspace tools by using subtraction.
I don't think that should preclude the ability to reset these, unless it is
shown that it would break something very badly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <482DA5B6.1020606@sngx.net>
2008-05-16 20:00 ` [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface network statistics via procfs David Miller
2008-05-16 20:09 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-17 15:06 ` James Cammarata
[not found] ` <482DB46A.8020103@cosmosbay.com>
2008-05-16 20:03 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <482EF192.4070707@sngx.net>
2008-05-17 21:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-17 22:49 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-18 0:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-18 1:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-18 5:09 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-18 11:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-29 1:45 ` [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 James Cammarata
2008-05-29 2:08 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 5:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29 12:34 ` James Cammarata [this message]
2008-05-29 14:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-29 17:15 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 20:50 ` David Miller
2008-05-29 21:18 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-30 19:12 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-30 22:14 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-31 1:09 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-31 2:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-31 4:47 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-31 12:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-31 23:57 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-01 1:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-01 20:46 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-01 22:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-02 3:55 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-02 5:39 ` David Miller
2008-06-02 15:41 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-02 4:50 ` Glen Turner
2008-06-02 16:10 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-03 12:28 ` James Cammarata
2008-06-03 12:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-03 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 3:05 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 14:48 ` Chris Friesen
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