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From: Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppp: add 64 bit stats
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:32:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABF+-6XVWpaw6zQe2XNaz4y3oj-KdDm63vbut5jAxs3RWRC6LQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120722.145454.943592825984584407.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:54 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:19:56 -0400
>
>> Add 64 bit stats to ppp driver.  The 64 bit stats include tx_bytes,
>
> I don't see this as being very practical nor justified.

It is obviously not up to me to decide what is practical or justified
in this case.  I am just always annoyed when I log into my Linksys
router and check the network stats for my PPP interface and have no
idea how many times the transfer stats have rolled over at 4GB.


Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-22 20:19 [PATCH] ppp: add 64 bit stats Kevin Groeneveld
2012-07-22 21:54 ` David Miller
2012-07-23  0:32   ` Kevin Groeneveld [this message]
2012-07-23  0:40     ` David Miller
2012-07-23  5:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-23 15:25   ` Kevin Groeneveld
2012-07-23 15:59     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-24  1:53       ` Kevin Groeneveld
2012-07-24  6:22         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-25  2:27           ` Kevin Groeneveld
2012-07-25  4:04             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-25 14:43               ` Kevin Groeneveld
2012-07-25 14:50                 ` Eric Dumazet

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