[ovs-dev] [RFC 05/10] ovs-thread-stats: New truly per-thread stats module

[Daniele Di Proietto]

On 10/10/14, 9:42 AM, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>I thought of another question.  I think that there's a hard limit, with
>this mechanism, on the maximum size of the client's statistics data
>structure.  Without looking at the patch again, I think it's 64 - 8 = 56
>bytes.  Is there anything in the code to make it hard for the client to
>accidentally try to store more data than that?

I didn't want to force the users to write a BUILD_ASSERT for each
structure they use, so I "hid" it in OVSTHREAD_STATS_BUCKET_CAST. Do you
think that's enough?