On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:28:45AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 22 April 2013 09:20, YAMAMOTO Takashi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * note: UINT64_MAX means unsupported
> > + */
>
> Is this checked anywhere (e.g., to avoid displaying unsupported
> stats)? Or will it result in the display of bogus values?
It's the return value convention. It's documented in netdev-provider.h:
/* Retrieves current device stats for 'netdev' into 'stats'.
*
* A network device that supports some statistics but not others, it should
* set the values of the unsupported statistics to all-1-bits
* (UINT64_MAX). */
int (*get_stats)(const struct netdev *netdev, struct netdev_stats *);
The callers are aware of it.
> > + stats->multicast = ifd->ifi_imcasts;
>
> Does Linux count in & out multicast frames in the same counter?
> Perhaps this should be imcasts + omcasts (and if so, on FreeBSD too).
It appears to me, from examining a few Linux drivers, that 'multicast'
counts received multicast frames only.
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