Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:53:17 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: RFC: another approach for 64-bit network stats |
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Patrick McHardy wrote: > This patch implements a lockless aproach for 64-bit netstatistics with > only a very rare > racecondition. On 64 bit system, nothing is changed. On 32 bit system
I think that you should consider providing a new API as opposed to breaking existing APIs.
And, perhaps this new API could deal with the very rare race to make it never happen? No matter how rare it is, you still have to write code to work around it if it exists..might as well do it once in the kernel instead of making each user of the interface deal with it.
Personally, I'd like to see the net-device stats (64-bit or otherwise) available through the ethtool interface in a well defined binary package (perhaps a struct net_device_stats, or similar.)
Ben
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