On Thu, 2003-07-03 22:31:27 -0400, Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>
wrote in message <200307032231.39842.jeffpc@optonline.net>:
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> The variables for network statistics (in struct net_device_stats) are unsigned
> longs. On 32-bit architectures, this makes them overflow every 4GB or 2^32
> packets. The following series of patches [against 2.5.74] makes the
> statistics variable type configurable. The default is to leave everything the
> way it was (unsigned long). However, when NETSTATS64 is set in the config,
> the statistics use 64-bit variables (u_int64_t) - this works only on 32-bit
> architectures.
Well... I don't really like to break userspace, but why don't we simply
make packet/traffic counters long long / u_int64_t? This way, we'd
simply keep almost all drivers untouched and only need to fiddle with
some sprints()/printk() statements?
Really, how many programs use the current statistics? I'd prefer to
modify them over adding strange patches like this one to the kernel...
MfG, JBG
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