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Subject: Re: 64 bit netdev stats counter
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
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On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 23:31, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> Isn't this the same as 32-bit counters on a machine that doesn't do atomic
> 32-bit ops?  Although in that case you could only be 2^16 off...

Yes but we don't happen to have any of those I care about 8)

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