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

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 09:59:55PM +0000, Daniele Di Proietto wrote:
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> On 10/10/14, 9:42 AM, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
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> >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?
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> 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?

I missed that on first read.  It is a good solution, thank you.