# Re: \[PATCH net-next\] net: dsa: User per-cpu 64-bit statistics

- From: David Miller \<davem@davemloft.net\>
- Date: 2017-08-07 04:27:07 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/08/5060671
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/08/5059224/t.md

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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2017 21:33:27 -0700

> During testing with a background iperf pushing 1Gbit/sec worth of
> traffic and having both ifconfig and ethtool collect statistics, we
> could see quite frequent deadlocks. Convert the often accessed DSA slave
> network devices statistics to per-cpu 64-bit statistics to remove these
> deadlocks and provide fast efficient statistics updates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Applied with appropriate Fixes: tag added.

Thanks.
```