netdev - Re: [PATCH] Rate should be u64 to avoid integer overflow at high speeds (>= ~35Gbit)

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Date:	Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:54:36 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Vimal <j.vimal@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	shemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rate should be u64 to avoid integer overflow at high
 speeds (>= ~35Gbit)

On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 00:49 -0500, Bill Fink wrote:

> I don't see the problem.  An old program would not know about
> the new multiplier, would thus get the default multiplier of 1,
> and get the same behavior as always, with the same limitation
> of ~34 Gbps.  But someone with a newer tc/kernel could for example
> specify a multiplier of 10, which would then support rates up to
> about 340 Gbps.  It sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

Hopefully, some of us see the problem here and are able to reject
patches before breaking user land.



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