[ovs-dev] [netdevs 3/4] netdev: Decouple creating and configuring network devices.

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Mon Aug 8 20:09:03 UTC 2011


Nifty, thanks for the series btw, looks like a major code simplification.

EThan

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 13:08, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 01:05:16PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
>> > I'm not sure that there is an advantage to that. ?Whether we do a
>> > get_config or a set_config, it's one system call.
>>
>> I suppose I assume that if we do a set_config, the kernel will reset
>> the statistics for that device. If that's not true then it doesn't
>> matter.
>
> It doesn't look to me that the kernel does that.  I don't remember
> implementing that behavior earlier.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>



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