netdev - Re: BUG: 32 bit net stats

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Message-ID: <1379973869.3165.27.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:04:29 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: 32 bit net stats

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 17:49 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> Something broke in sending of 32 bit version of netstat around the
> time 64 bit version was improved. I went back as far as 3.8.0 to recent
> kernels. Could have been earlier.
> The work around in user space is when you see 64 bit stats just ignore
> the 32 bit version (which iproute2 does and so am i;->).
> 
> But assumming there are tools out there that know only of 32 bit
> variant they will get bad stats. Here's a compile tested only patch.
> Wont have to test anything for at least another day.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 

Hi Jamal

Sorry, this doesnt make sense to me.

Existing code seems to be fine.

Which driver do you use ?


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