Re: netdev.stats change suggestion

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> 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.

We should make them 64-bit because related SNMP MIBs use 64-bits.

        Jeff




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