From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: "Markus H�stbacka" <midian@ihme.org>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NET] 64 bit byte counter for 2.6.3
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:32:57 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402181527000.7318@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218101711.25dda791@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
Markus Hästbacka <midian@ihme.org> wrote:
> Ok, Here's a patch for 64 bit byte counters for 2.6.3. For any intrested
> users to try.
Manipulation of a 'long long' is not atomic in 32 bit architectures.
Please explain how we don't care, if we shouldn't care. Also some
/proc entries might get read incorrectly with existing tools.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an Pentium III machine (1797.90
BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-18 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-18 16:51 Markus Hästbacka
2004-02-18 18:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-02-18 20:32 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
2004-02-18 20:43 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-02-18 22:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-18 22:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-02-18 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-19 8:14 ` Meelis Roos
2004-02-19 17:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-02-22 17:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-23 11:34 ` Jeff Sipek
2004-02-23 12:38 ` Andreas Schwab
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