Re: netdev.stats change suggestion

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:02:14PM +0200, Dmitrii Tisnek wrote:

    I've discovered that struct net_device_stats defines counters like
    rx_bytes and tx_bytes as unsigned long, which on x86 is, sadly, 32
    bits.

How fast is our IO?  For most everyone, 32-bits is plenty enough.
Have a daemon/whatever check it from time-to-time and detect overflow.

    (although it seems uint64 is used in some headers, so perhaps it's
    enough to use that)

In theory we could use 'long long' on 32-bit architectures, but then
we can't do atomic add/sub operations...



  --cw