netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 net-next] net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics

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Date:   Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:21:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jqiaoulk@...il.com
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next] net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics

From: "Jianming.qiao" <jqiaoulk@...il.com>
Date: Fri,  4 Aug 2017 00:07:45 +0100

> When using Broadcom Systemport device in 32bit Platform, ifconfig can
> only report up to 4G tx,rx status, which will be wrapped to 0 when the
> number of incoming or outgoing packets exceeds 4G, only taking
> around 2 hours in busy network environment (such as streaming).
> Therefore, it makes hard for network diagnostic tool to get reliable
> statistical result, so the patch is used to add 64bit support for
> Broadcom Systemport device in 32bit Platform.
> 
> This patch provides 64bit statistics capability on both ethtool and ifconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianming.qiao <kiki-good@...mail.com>

Applied, thanks.