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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] nfp: flower: speed up stats update loop
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:40:56 +0300
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On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 4:58 AM Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> wrote:

> Given that our statistic IDs are already array indices, and considering
> each statistic is only 24B in size, we decided to forego the use

8B packet + 8B bytes --> 16B -- does your FW/HW provide last use? how do
you express this lastuse value in host jiffies?