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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>
Cc: "e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net"
	<e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel•com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@intel•com>,
	"jeffery.t.kirsher@intel•com" <jeffery.t.kirsher@intel•com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] igb: statistic optimization
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:37:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FF64E8.4050907@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0810211224440.2736@jbrandeb-desk.amr.corp.intel.com>

> I don't think you want to put this in the code that can be called directly 
> from IOCTL from userspace.  This function can take a lot of cycles and 
> some silly applications like gkrellm call it quite frequently.  The 
> update_stats function will be called as part of the watchdog anyway, and 
> you already got the interesting stats for realtime with the tx and rx 
> bytes/packets.

On the flip side aren't there "out of phase" issues with pulling stats 
based on a timer vs something like a netstat -i 1 command?

rick jones

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 19:09 [RFC 1/2] igb: statistic optimization Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-21 19:30 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-10-21 19:31   ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-10-22 17:37   ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-10-22 17:54     ` Stephen Hemminger

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