Subject: Re: kern/1515 - Changing netstat variables to 64 bit
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bosch.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/07/1999 20:45:57
Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> In article <199906070704.RAA00417@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au (Darren Reed) writes:
> >
> >Does that collection of patches below help you with this ?
> >
> >I'm somewhat surprised this has been left open given its rather
> >innocent and `simple' nature.  I haven't tested these yet, but
> >they appear right...will test them late.
> >
> 
> Problem is that on 32 bit machines they suck a lot of performance.

How much is 'a lot of'? :-)

We could create a typedef for these, like netstat_variables_size_t 
and make it a compile time option if it's 32 or 64 bit.

This is still a hack, but would allow both sides to be happy,
I guess, not?

  Guenther