On 11/02/2018 02:05 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > temp will be mem copied to priv->stats.sw at the end, > memcpy(&priv->stats.sw, &s, sizeof(s)); > > one other way to solve this as suggested by Andrew, is to get rid of > the temp var and make it point directly to priv->stats.sw > What about concurrency ? This temp variable is there to make sure concurrent readers of stats might not see mangle data (because another 'reader' just did a memset() and is doing the folding) mlx5e_get_stats() can definitely be run at the same time by multiple threads.