From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 15 13: 1:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from technokratis.com (modemcable099.144-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca [24.201.144.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90A937B404 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by technokratis.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) id g0FL3gl34638; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:03:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmilekic) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:03:42 -0500 From: Bosko Milekic To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Terry Lambert , Mats Lofkvist , imp@village.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again Message-ID: <20020115160342.A34519@technokratis.com> References: <3C44902E.F9E0B6C@mindspring.com> <28601.1011126652@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <28601.1011126652@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:30:52PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I think it's time to kill this discussion. I still think that counting bytes is pretty lame but if "most" (I would hardly call it "most," but whatever) people want a 64-bit counter on a 32-bit architecture just to do this, then whatever. When I posted my original concerns, it was only because I wanted to avoid having a huge sweep over all the network code, converting all counters to 64-bit - which would be ridiculous. If it's only a matter of one or two counters, as DG appeared to suggest in an earlier post, let's just drop the discussion and you can do/have someone else do whatever pleases "most" people. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3C44902E.F9E0B6C@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > > >THat's the main reason I sugested counting something else > >instead of bytes. > > Terry, at this point I think we can conclude that this is not > what the majority of people want. > > Now, please go away and stop wasting our time. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message