> I don't think you want to put this in the code that can be called directly 
> from IOCTL from userspace.  This function can take a lot of cycles and 
> some silly applications like gkrellm call it quite frequently.  The 
> update_stats function will be called as part of the watchdog anyway, and 
> you already got the interesting stats for realtime with the tx and rx 
> bytes/packets.

On the flip side aren't there "out of phase" issues with pulling stats 
based on a timer vs something like a netstat -i 1 command?

rick jones

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