linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH net] tcp: Add READ_ONCE() to read tcp_orphan

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Message-ID: <61020a29e421414b8ddf723641b150da@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 May 2022 11:08:51 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Eric Dumazet' <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
CC:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Liu Jian <liujian56@...wei.com>,
        "Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net] tcp: Add READ_ONCE() to read tcp_orphan_count

> Statistics are supposed to be monotonically increasing ;)
> 
> Some SNMP agents would be very confused if they could observe 'garbage' there.

Don't look inside tg3 :-)

	David

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