Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v4 3/4] ifstat: Add 64 bits based stats to extended statistics

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:43:35 -0800

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:49:50 +0200
Nogah Frankel <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The default stats for ifstat are 32 bits based.
> The kernel supports 64 bits based stats. (They are returned in struct
> rtnl_link_stats64 which is an exact copy of struct rtnl_link_stats, in
> which the "normal" stats are returned, but with fields of u64 instead of
> u32). This patch adds them as an extended stats.
> 
> It is read with filter type IFLA_STATS_LINK_64 and no sub type.
> 
> It is under the name 64bits
> (or any shorten of it as "64")
> 
> For example:
> ifstat -x 64bit
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>

Other commands (like ip link) always use the 64 bit statistics if available
from the device. I see no reason that ifstat needs to be different.