Re: [PATCH net-next v5 07/10] forcedeth: implement ndo_get_stats64() API

Thanks for your feedback on these concerns.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Ben Hutchings
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 08:55 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

quoted

Or realize that the Tx side is single threaded by dev->xmit_lock already
and the Rx side is single threaded by NAPI.

Right.

Yes, that's what I meant by "Each software stat field is updated by
one single writer." in a previous email. However, I think that TX and
RX paths are not always synchronized. So I'm afraid that if I'm using
a single seqcount, I might run into trouble in the absence of a lock
around each update.... and I'd really prefer to avoid such a lock. Are
you suggesting I should use 2 independent seqcounts? One for RX path,
the other for TX path, all this without a lock around writers?

Side-note: what are the bad implications of using atomic_t (in the fast paths)?