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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] rte_sched: don't clear statistics when	read
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:55:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150209145509.1b7bea9b@uryu.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D89126323097BA@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 22:48:36 +0000
"Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> What is the reason not to clear statistics on read? Do you have a use-case / justification for it?
> 
> (BTW, I see you added the reset functions, but was it also your intention to remove the memset to 0 from the stats read functions? :) )
> 
> Regards,
> Cristian

Read and clear is a non-standard model. Interface statistics are not read/clear.
We have lots of scripts that read statistics. Users don't like it if when 
stastics disappear.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-05  6:13 Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-05  6:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] rte_sched: don't put tabs in log messages Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-20 18:33   ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-05  6:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] rte_sched: eliminate floating point in calculating byte clock Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-16 22:44   ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-17 16:05     ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-05  6:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] rte_sched: rearrange data structures Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-20 18:43   ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-05 12:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] rte_sched: don't clear statistics when read Neil Horman
2015-02-23 23:51   ` Thomas Monjalon
     [not found]   ` <fa17ab0c3bc041b88e18d3d76a255f13@HQ1WP-EXMB11.corp.brocade.com>
2015-02-24 19:18     ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-24 20:06       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-02-25 17:29         ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-03-10 13:55         ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-02-09 22:48 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-09 22:55   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-02-20 18:32     ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-20 19:52       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-20 20:23         ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-20 21:01           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-02-20 21:28             ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-21  1:53               ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-23 12:06                 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2015-02-09 23:46   ` Neil Horman

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