From: "Norman Rasmussen" <norman@rasmussen.co.za>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures.
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:14:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b698f5a0901130614w25863576jcdfc839e68daa45c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
re: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118415534518953
(please cc me on replies)
On 2007-07-11 Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> c) take the more painful route of switching over to 64bit statistics in
> netlink. Add 64bit interface, port userspace tools, deprecate the old 32bit
> interface. (I guess exporting as u64 even on 32bit architectures wouldn't
> hurt them, even if they still will rollover at (unsigned long) 32 bits.)
I youthfully opened a ticket here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12425 to track the
implementation for this feature request.
Is there someone more qualified than me to add support for 64 bit
device counters, or is this something I should try and hack together
in a UML and submit a patch?
--
- Norman Rasmussen
- Email: norman@rasmussen.co.za
- Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/
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2009-01-13 14:14 Norman Rasmussen [this message]
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2007-07-11 11:50 iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures Andreas Henriksson
2007-07-10 15:56 Fw: " Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-10 18:05 ` David Miller
2007-07-10 18:17 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-10 18:36 ` David Miller
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