netdev - Re: [patch 4/4] tcp: statistics not read

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Message-Id: <20070312.141550.48806100.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] tcp: statistics not read_mostly

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:08:21 -0700

> The TCP statistics shouldn't be located in the middle of the
> read_mostly section surrounded by sysctl values.
> Move EXPORT_SYMBOL next to data like other declarations near by.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

Stephen, they are pointers to the statistics, not the statistic
counters themselves.  We're marking the _pointers_ as __read_mostly
here.

When Eric originally submitted the change to add __read_mostly here I
didn't understand it either.

Look at the definition of DEFINE_SNMP_STAT().
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