Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] add FEC bins histogram report via ethtool

[Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>]

On 19/09/2025 20:46, Vadim Fedorenko wrote:
> IEEE 802.3ck-2022 defines counters for FEC bins and 802.3df-2024
> clarifies it a bit further. Implement reporting interface through as
> addition to FEC stats available in ethtool. NetDevSim driver has simple
> implementation as an example while mlx5 has much more complex solution.
> 
> The example query is the same as usual FEC statistics while the answer
> is a bit more verbose:
> 
> [vmuser@archvm9 linux]$ ./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml --do fec-get --json '{"header":{"dev-index": 10, "flags": 4}}'
> {'auto': 0,
>   'header': {'dev-index': 10, 'dev-name': 'eni10np1'},
>   'modes': {'bits': {}, 'nomask': True, 'size': 121},
>   'stats': {'corr-bits': [],
>             'corrected': [123],
>             'hist': [{'bin-high': 0,
>                       'bin-low': 0,
>                       'bin-val': 445,
>                       'bin-val-per-lane': [125, 120, 100, 100]},
>                      {'bin-high': 3, 'bin-low': 1, 'bin-val': 12},
>                      {'bin-high': 7,
>                       'bin-low': 4,
>                       'bin-val': 2,
>                       'bin-val-per-lane': [2, 0, 0, 0]}],
>             'uncorr': [4]}}
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> * update spec to avoid using underscores
> * make core accumulate per-lane errors into bin error counter
> * adjust wording in Documentation
> * improve FEC type check in mlx5
> * add selftest to do sanity check of reported histogram
> * partially carry-over Rb tags from Aleksandr because of logical changes
> v3 Link - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250916191257.13343-1-vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev/
> v2 -> v3:
> * fix yaml spec to use binary array for histogram per-lane values
> * fix spelling
> v1 -> v2:
> * fix memset size of FEC histogram bins in mlx5
> * adjust fbnic driver FEC stats callback
> 
> Links to RFC discussions:
> v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250729102354.771859-1-vadfed@meta.com/
> v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250731231019.1809172-1-vadfed@meta.com/
> v3 - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250802063024.2423022-1-vadfed@meta.com/
> v4 - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250807155924.2272507-1-vadfed@meta.com/
> v5 - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250815132729.2251597-1-vadfed@meta.com/
> 
> Carolina Jubran (3):
>    net/mlx5e: Don't query FEC statistics when FEC is disabled
>    net/mlx5e: Add logic to read RS-FEC histogram bin ranges from PPHCR
>    net/mlx5e: Report RS-FEC histogram statistics via ethtool
> 
> Vadim Fedorenko (2):
>    ethtool: add FEC bins histogram report
>    selftests: net-drv: stats: sanity check FEC histogram
> 
>   Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml      |  26 ++++
>   Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst  |   5 +
>   .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c |   3 +-
>   .../ethernet/fungible/funeth/funeth_ethtool.c |   3 +-
>   .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_ethtool.c    |   3 +-
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c  |   4 +-
>   .../marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h  |   1 +
>   .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c  |   5 +-
>   .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c |   8 ++
>   .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_stats.c    | 125 +++++++++++++++++-
>   .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_stats.h    |   3 +-
>   .../net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_ethtool.c   |   3 +-
>   drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool.c            |   3 +-
>   drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/siena/ethtool.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool.c               |  25 +++-
>   include/linux/ethtool.h                       |  25 +++-
>   .../uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h    |  11 ++
>   net/ethtool/fec.c                             |  75 ++++++++++-
>   tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/stats.py  |  35 ++++-
>   20 files changed, 345 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

selftest needs fix in error handling path, v5 is on the way---
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