On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:49:50 +0200 Nogah Frankel <nog...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> The default stats for ifstat are 32 bits based. > The kernel supports 64 bits based stats. (They are returned in struct > rtnl_link_stats64 which is an exact copy of struct rtnl_link_stats, in > which the "normal" stats are returned, but with fields of u64 instead of > u32). This patch adds them as an extended stats. > > It is read with filter type IFLA_STATS_LINK_64 and no sub type. > > It is under the name 64bits > (or any shorten of it as "64") > > For example: > ifstat -x 64bit > > Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel <nog...@mellanox.com> > Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> Other commands (like ip link) always use the 64 bit statistics if available from the device. I see no reason that ifstat needs to be different.
