Re: [PATCH 1/3] ethtool: Support ETHTOOL_GSTATS2 command.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 04/18/2018 02:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-17 at 18:49 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>>
>> + * @get_ethtool_stats2: Return extended statistics about the device.
>> + *	This is only useful if the device maintains statistics not
>> + *	included in &struct rtnl_link_stats64.
>> + *      Takes a flags argument:  0 means all (same as get_ethtool_stats),
>> + *      0x1 (ETHTOOL_GS2_SKIP_FW) means skip firmware stats.
>> + *      Other flags are reserved for now.
>
> It'd be pretty hard to know which flags are firmware stats?

Yes, it is, but ethtool stats are difficult to understand in a generic
manner anyway, so someone using them is already likely aware of low-level
details of the driver(s) they are using.

In my case, I have lots of virtual stations (or APs), and I want stats
for them as well as for the 'radio', so I would probe the first vdev with
flags of 'skip-none' to get all stats, including radio (firmware) stats.

And then the rest I would just probe the non-firmware stats.

To be honest, I was slightly amused that anyone expressed interest in
this patch originally, but maybe other people have similar use case
and/or drivers with slow-to-acquire stats.

> Anyway, there's no way I'm going to take this patch, so you need to
> float it on netdev first (best CC us here) and get it applied there
> before we can do anything on the wifi side.

I posted the patches to netdev, ath10k and linux-wireless.  If I had only
posted them individually to different lists I figure I'd be hearing about how
the netdev patch is useless because it has no driver support, etc.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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