netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: Add timestamp to network interface stats

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Date:	Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:25:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dannguo@...co.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: Add timestamp to network interface
 stats

From: Danny Guo <dannguo@...co.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:11:24 -0700

> From: Danny Guo <dannguo@...co.com>
> 
> This patch adds timestamps in ethtool stats. It makes it easier to provide scripts to users to calculate throughput, etc. It also allows software to synchronize timestamps with host time for correlating host events with stats collection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danny Guo <dannguo@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Wang <dwang2@...co.com>

It's "easier" but only for your specific driver if we let this patch
go in.

Everyone tends to come up with the "easy" but localized and selfish
solution.

We have not one but several rate estimators in the kernel, if that's
unusable then fix them instead of just going for private facilities
that only will work with your driver.

I'm not applying this, sorry.
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