Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux | Date | Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:41:06 +1100 |
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:29:10 +1100, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote: >On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:43:01 -0600 (CST), >Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >>On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >>> If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring >>> method to query the current capacity of an interface. >>Well, ethtool interface supports reporting media selection as well as >>[re]setting media setting. I dunno if we could report what capacity >>an interface is handling without adding code to hot paths... > >You calculate the capacity during ifconfig up or during speed change. >That is not on the hot path.
Replying to my own mail, I just realised it was ambiguous. By "current capacity" I mean the maximum capacity of the link based on the current settings. We can get capacity _used_ from the byte counters, we do not have a figure for maximum capacity.
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