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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=y4u1DTtOX9-70CeDGhWGu4bBKK0Y32Js41=bK@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:14:35 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] e1000e: convert to stats64

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:31, Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:29:33PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Le mardi 14 décembre 2010 à 18:32 -0200, Flavio Leitner a écrit :
>> > Provides accurate stats at the time user reads them.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h   |    5 ++-
>> >  drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c |   27 +++++++++-------
>> >  drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c  |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>> >  3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h b/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h
>> > index fdc67fe..5a5e944 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h
>> > @@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ struct e1000_adapter {
>> >     /* structs defined in e1000_hw.h */
>> >     struct e1000_hw hw;
>> >
>> > +   spinlock_t stats64_lock;
>> > +   struct rtnl_link_stats64 stats64;
>>
>> I am not sure why you add this stats64 in e1000_adapter ?
>>
>> Why isnt it provided by callers (automatic variable, or provided to
>> ndo_get_stats64()). I dont see accumulators, only a full rewrite of this
>> structure in e1000e_update_stats() ?
>
> Good point. I have modified the patch to fix that.
> thanks!
>
> From 3487bd7dacd0c23bba315270139dab6e00e5ff02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:26:03 -0200
> Subject: [PATCH] e1000e: convert to stats64
>
> Provides accurate stats at the time user reads them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h   |    3 ++
>  drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c |   25 ++++++++-------
>  drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c  |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>

I have dropped you previous version of the patch and applied v2 to my
tree for review and testing.
Thanks Flavio!


-- 
Cheers,
Jeff
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