03/11/2021 12:56, Radu Nicolau:
> When STATS_INTERVAL is set to a non-zero value the core_statistics array
> will be defined in multiple compilation units and this can trigger a
> linker error on particular environments. In order to fix this the
> core_statistics definition was moved out of the header file.
So it is not fixing compilation,
as we would never apply a patch which would completely break compilation.
I would say (in the title) that it moves global variable from header file.
> Fixes: 1329602b6c8f ("examples/ipsec-secgw: add per-core packet statistics")
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <[email protected]>