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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:57:32 +0100
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	Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
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Changli Gao a =A8=A6crit :
> 2009/11/10 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>:
>> Not sure how to solve this problem (several cpus can updates counter=
 in //)
>>
> Thanks, and follow your suggestions. I can maintain the counter per T=
X
> queue, and update it in a timer handler like ixgbe or implement our
> own struct net_device_stats* (*ndo_get_stats)(struct net_device *dev)=
,
> and update the counters when it gets called.

Please no timer stuff :)