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[Alexander Gall <>]

On Fri, 6 May 2022 17:16:56 +0200, mc36 <> said:

> they increase and seemingly the drawing also works as before....

Since the port counters are read from a pseudo-table (PORT_STAT), I
guess the read from the hardware is done implicitly by bf_switchd.
But then I wonder why the from_hw flag has any effect at all. It could
be that it triggers a refresh of the entire PORT_STAT table on top of
the regular updates. That could explain the performance impact. In any
case, if the regular updates are frequent enough for our purpose,
disabling from_hw is the correct thing to do.

--
Alex

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> On 5/6/22 17:15, Alexander Gall wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 May 2022 16:53:43 +0200, mc36 <> said:
>> 
>> 
>>> next, i commented out (as per frederic idea) the from-hw in bf_ports:
>>> https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/commit/f4a02a9b40fd8b976b63776a228619ff4f1f99d1
>> 
>> But doesn't that break the counters?
>>