Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266512AbTGEVcZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266513AbTGEVcZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:32:25 -0400 Received: from evrtwa1-ar2-4-33-045-074.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.33.45.74]:6071 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266512AbTGEVcX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:32:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F074739.9090006@candelatech.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 14:46:33 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Sipek CC: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Jeff Garzik , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH - RFC] [1/5] 64-bit network statistics - generic net References: <200307051449.32934.jeffpc@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <200307051449.32934.jeffpc@optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 27 Jeff Sipek wrote: > Using KB would give us additional 10 bits (making the overflow at 4 TB.) I > don't really like the idea of using MB, but the underlying idea is the same - > 20 more bits, making the limit 4 PB. > > What is the consensus on this way of solving the problem? I guess it could be useful for something like ifconfig, but serious applications will need more precision and should deal with wraps anyway (even on 64-bits, in my opinion..why have to fix bugs in 10 years because we were too lazy to take the 10 minutes to make it right now). Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/