netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics

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Message-ID: <BB135D88-36F0-40AB-84D0-EF3A36B5AC2F@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:45:46 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     "Jianming.qiao" <jqiaoulk@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics

On July 30, 2017 5:01:15 PM PDT, "Jianming.qiao" <jqiaoulk@...il.com> wrote:
>When using Broadcom Systemport device in 32bit Platform, ifconfig can
>only report up to 4G tx,rx status, which will be wrapped to 0 when the
>number of incoming or outgoing packets exceeds 4G, only taking
>around 2 hours in busy network environment (such as streaming).
>Therefore, it makes hard for network diagnostic tool to get reliable
>statistical result, so the patch is used to add 64bit support for
>Broadcom Systemport device in 32bit Platform.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jianming.qiao <kiki-good@...mail.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

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Florian