Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:17:59 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [NET] 64 bit byte counter for 2.6.3 |
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Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Do it right: > * use per-cpu long long for both bytes and packet counts > and change each driver ... > * expose both a new 64 bit and legacy 32 bit /proc interface > * no tools use /sys yet, so that needs to show long long > * have both a get_stats and get_stats64 hook in netdevice so not all drivers > have to be converted at once.
Yep.
Jeff
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