From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:43:50 -0700
> I say sort of, because by the time we have any number, TCP might > have received more packets anyway. That's fine. However, the number reported should have been true at least at some finite point in time. If you allow overlapping changes to either of the two variables during the sampling, then you are reporting a number which was never true at any point in time. It is essentially garbage.