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Task #5611: tracking: counters: improve efficiency of stats tracking

counters: reduce size of data structure

Added by Victor Julien about 3 years ago. Updated 16 days ago.

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Closed

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Normal

Assignee:

Victor Julien

Target version:

9.0.0-beta1

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Current a StatsLocalCounter structure, which is what is used during updates in the packet path, is 32 bytes in size. This is far more than needed. Simple counters like packet counters should just be a single uint64_t, more complex counters might require double that (value+updates).