Re: netdev.stats change suggestion

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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....

... and you can't say for sure that there was no wrap if the previous
value was smaller. You may have just missed the wrap.
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Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator