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Eric Dumazet 16b8a4761c net: Introduce u64_stats_sync infrastructure
To properly implement 64bits network statistics on 32bit or 64bit hosts,
we provide one new type and four methods, to ease conversions.

Stats producer should use following template granted it already got an
exclusive access to counters (include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h contains
some documentation about details)

    u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->syncp);
    stats->bytes64 += len;
    stats->packets64++;
    u64_stats_update_end(&stats->syncp);

While a consumer should use following template to get consistent
snapshot :

    u64 tbytes, tpackets;
    unsigned int start;

    do {
        start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&stats->syncp);
        tbytes = stats->bytes64;
        tpackets = stats->packets64;
    } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&stats->lock, syncp));

Suggested by David Miller, and comments courtesy of Nick Piggin.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-23 12:59:47 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2010-05-28 14:42:18 -07:00
asm-generic numa: introduce numa_mem_id()- effective local memory node id 2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add ablkcipher_walk interfaces 2010-05-19 14:13:07 +10:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2010-05-21 11:14:52 -07:00
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linux net: Introduce u64_stats_sync infrastructure 2010-06-23 12:59:47 -07:00
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media V4L/DVB: v4l2-subdev.h: Add support for enum_dv_preset 2010-05-19 12:59:01 -03:00
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net net: Fix a typo in netlink.h 2010-06-23 12:58:40 -07:00
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rdma IB/core: Allow device-specific per-port sysfs files 2010-05-21 10:34:44 -07:00
rxrpc net: use __packed annotation 2010-06-03 03:21:52 -07:00
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