Re: netdev.stats change suggestion

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donald Becker wrote:


> I used to get a zillion requests (and patches) to clear the counters.
> The "multiple readers" answer is the most easily understood response to
> this FRF (Frequently Requested mis-Feature).


There's a fairly small difference between wrapping a 32-bit number and
clearing the counters...both ways the reader has to deal with a system
that is not strictly increasing...  You do the the crutch of knowing that
if something only wraps (and is not cleared) that you have *at least*
wrapped once....

Ben



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