netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/9] xen: convert to 64 bit stats interface

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Message-ID: <1308127092.17937.118.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:38:12 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/9] xen: convert to 64 bit stats
 interface

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:07 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:56:45AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:53 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Convert xen driver to 64 bit statistics interface.
> > > This driver was already counting packet per queue in a 64 bit value so not
> > > a huge change.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I think this driver will need to use u64_stats_sync.
> 
> Ian?

I'll defer to Ben on this, but the case for needing u64_stats_sync for
64 bit values seems reasonable to me.

Ian.

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