On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:58 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Absolutely, I am talking about virtio here. I'm not kicking > > u64_stats_sync idea I am just saying that simple locking > > would work for virtio and might be better as it > > gives us a way to get counters atomically. > > Which lock do you own in the RX path ?
We can just disable napi, everything is updated from napi callback. > You'll have to add a lock in fast path. This sounds really a bad choice > to me. .ndo_get_stats64 is not data path though, is it? -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
