I'm poking at the ixgbe_main code in 2.6.31.

It seems from the spec sheet that the 82599 supports the GORCH.


	/* 82598 hardware only has a 32 bit counter in the high register */
	if (hw->mac.type == ixgbe_mac_82599EB) {
		adapter->stats.gorc += IXGBE_READ_REG(hw, IXGBE_GORCL);
		IXGBE_READ_REG(hw, IXGBE_GORCH); /* to clear */


stats.gorc is 64-bit, so any reason not to grab the 4 high-bits out of GORCL
and add them to stats.gorc instead of just clearing them as this
code seems to do?

That gives us some precious extra seconds to read counters before they
wrap :)

Thanks,
Ben

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