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Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 16:53:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: mchan@...adcom.com
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
john.ronciak@...el.com, liblit@....org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10600] New: e1000 updates rx_bytes
infrequently
From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:55:35 -0700
> The width of hardware counters may also be limited and so periodic
> fetching or DMA may be needed to prevent overflow.
To the best of my knowledge, they are all 64-bit on e1000, so I don't
think it's a real issue in this specific case.
But yes, in general, this is a concern.
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