On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 09:40:09PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> wrote: > > The netdev counters are all the same size and there is some other way > > to discover what the size is. I'd like to see that for IB counters > > too, but it is probably infeasible. So if we have counters that are > > not the same size as netdev counters then some kind of size indicator > > is required for sane userspace. > > We're talking now only on the IB extended counters who are all 64 bits
netdev counters are 32 bit or 64 bit, depending on how the kernel was compiled. I think indicating the size explicitly, or always being 64 bit (and extending all the lessor counters in future) is the way to go for IB.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
