Re: [PATCH]snmp6 64-bit counter support in proc.c

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Subject:	Re: [PATCH]snmp6 64-bit counter support in proc.c
From:	"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:43:19 -0800 (PST)
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   From: Shirley Ma <xma@xxxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:08:04 -0800

   Do you really care about this situation? It only happens as a race within
   one instruction in 4 billion. It will slow everytime if we do this way.

correctness > performance

If MRTG hits this case and my net usage graphs have weird spikes
in them as a result, can I assign the bugzilla entry to you? :-)

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