From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH] snmp: add missing counters for RFC 4293 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:32:49 +0200 Message-ID: <49F0A641.90303@cosmosbay.com> References: <49EEA7E3.3080507@cosmosbay.com> <20090422.020837.58106317.davem@davemloft.net> <49EEE4F1.4020705@cosmosbay.com> <20090422.025003.92631170.davem@davemloft.net> <20090422165034.GC17947@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49EF566B.70203@cosmosbay.com> <20090423152823.GA30405@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49F09933.2010200@cosmosbay.com> <20090423165620.GB30405@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49F0A1C8.5080601@cosmosbay.com> <20090423172524.GC30405@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:43544 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753793AbZDWRc7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:32:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090423172524.GC30405@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Neil Horman a =E9crit : > Perhaps we could define the size of each counter at compile time, so = that at > least 64 bit systems can have sane counters? Well, mibs are "unsigned long", so are 64 bits on these systems. >=20 > Btw, I will repost one more time to take in the above enhancement you= suggested > regarding the limited use of per_cpu_ptr and in_softirq (my last post= made it > sound like I wouldnt) OK, thanks