netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: fix occasional statistics off-by-4GB error

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Message-Id: <20130318.160548.1629790231912790279.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:05:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zenczykowski@...il.com
Cc:	eilong@...adcom.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, dmitry@...adcom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yuvalmin@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: fix occasional statistics off-by-4GB error

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:54:49 -0700

> I've reproduced this in the lab.
> 
> I can confirm this patch fixes per-queue statistics (ie. ethtool -S
> "[0]: tx_bytes") - which previously were not monotonically increasing.
> However there is still a bug wrt. global device stats (ie. ethtool -S
> "tx_bytes" and /proc/net/dev transmit bytes).
> I'm guessing there's another similar bug later on during aggregation.
> 
> I expect to find the offending code and send out a patch soon.

Thanks Maciej.
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