netdev - Re: [GIT/PATCH v4] xen network backend driver

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Message-ID: <20110310091555.0fa8764d@nehalam>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:15:55 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT/PATCH v4] xen network backend driver

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:02:33 +0000
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com> wrote:
> +struct xenvif {
> +	/* Unique identifier for this interface. */
...
> +	struct net_device_stats stats;
> +

There is already a stats struct in net_device in current kernel
versions, unless there is a compelling reason otherwise
please use that.

Also, you probably want to implement per-cpu and 64 bit
stats.

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