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<OFA97F4753.DC8C93AD-ON87256EA0.0080DAAB-07256EA0.00814B08@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed,
26 May 2004 16:32:04 -0700), Shirley Ma <xma@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> > Without adding support for u64 counter, it does not make sense to add
> > new interface. You can add new counter to the end of the structures.
>
> It's not good to add new counters to the end of the old structure. The mib
>
> number and offset will be wrong.
I don't think so.
But, even if so, we can add only missing stats.
> >This also contains per-interface statistics support.
> (I rember that you said that) we should add idev into an route and avoid
> get/put idev.
>
> Only a few get/put idev there, not too many. And in some places there are
> no
> route, no we can't use idev in route.
okay.
> > I strongly do not want to poeple to change their code twice to support
> draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2011-update-XX.txt.
>
> All the counters not just IP will be eventually 64 bits. We can fix it
> later. And
> if we implement 64 counters here, there is performance issue on some
> architectures which don't support atmoic 64 for 32 bit platform.
I strongly do not want to change interface twice to support these new
statistics.
--yoshfuji @ driving traffic jam
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