[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 2/4] app/testpmd: extend fwd statistics to 64bits

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 3/20/19 1:02 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> fwd engine statistics are stored as unsigned int (32bits) and can wrap
> quite quickly.
> Example: sending 7mpps for 614s gives us 4298000000 packets =>
> 0x1002e4680 larger than 32bits.
>
> testpmd reports forwarding stats as:
> RX-packets: 3500381        TX-packets: 3500010        TX-dropped: 371
>
> While the port and accumulated stats are reported as 64bits:
> RX-packets: 4298467677     RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 4298467677
> TX-packets: 4298467306     TX-dropped: 371           TX-total: 4298467677
>
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>

RX and Rx are used for error stats. Don't know why. But the patch simply 
preserves it,
so not a problem of the patch.