netdev - Re: [net-next 04/17] ixgbevf: provide 64 bit statistics

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Message-ID: <1308689433.22851.55.camel@jtkirshe-mobl>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:50:33 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 04/17] ixgbevf: provide 64 bit statistics

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:46 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 20 juin 2011 à 05:29 -0700, Jeff Kirsher a écrit :
> 
> > I will drop Stephen's patch from this series and look forward to
> your
> > fixes.  Thanks Eric.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Here is an updated patch :
> 
> [PATCH net-next] ixgbevf: provide 64 bit statistics
> 
> Compute statistics per ring using 64 bits, and provide
> network device stats in 64 bits.
> 
> It should make this driver multiqueue operations faster (no more cache
> line ping pongs on netdev->stats structure)
> 
> Use u64_stats_sync infrastructure so that its safe on 32bit arches as
> well.
> 
> Based on a prior patch from Stephen Hemminger
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> 

Thanks Eric, I have added the patch to my queue.

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