From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Norman Rasmussen" Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures. Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:14:55 +0200 Message-ID: <5b698f5a0901130614w25863576jcdfc839e68daa45c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:60806 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751658AbZAMOO6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:14:58 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so67533bwz.13 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:14:56 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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/