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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, nogahf@mellanox.com,
	idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com, yotamg@mellanox.com,
	ogerlitz@mellanox.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
	nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	gospo@cumulusnetworks.com, sfeldma@gmail.com, sd@queasysnail.net,
	eranbe@mellanox.com, ast@plumgrid.com, edumazet@google.com,
	hannes@stressinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/4] netdevice: add SW statistics ndo
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 10:39:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160517083908.GA13823@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463053730-14991-2-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us>

On 05/12/16 at 01:48pm, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 12436d1..a69e418 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -7376,6 +7376,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_stats_to_stats64);
>   *	The device driver may provide its own method by setting
>   *	dev->netdev_ops->get_stats64 or dev->netdev_ops->get_stats;
>   *	otherwise the internal statistics structure is used.
> + *	If device supports both HW & SW statistics - this function should
> + *	return the HW statistics.
>   */
>  struct rtnl_link_stats64 *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev,
>  					struct rtnl_link_stats64 *storage)

Can we clarify in a comment that given HW stats are available whether this
would continue to account for something like a memory allocation failure
through tx_dropped (for drivers which do skb_realloc_headroom() in xmit)
or tx_busy for when the ring is busy? HW would never see such failures Is
the expectation that dev_get_stats() continues to include these software
failures?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-12 11:48 [patch net-next 0/4] return offloaded stats as default and expose original sw start Jiri Pirko
2016-05-12 11:48 ` [patch net-next 1/4] netdevice: add SW statistics ndo Jiri Pirko
2016-05-12 21:10   ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-05-12 22:23     ` Florian Fainelli
2016-05-13  6:06       ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-13  6:03     ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-13 18:47       ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-05-14 12:49         ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-14 15:47           ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-05-14 18:46             ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-15  4:11               ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-05-15  6:47                 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-15 15:44               ` Andrew Lunn
2016-05-16  9:00                 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-17  8:39   ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2016-05-17  8:41     ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-17 14:42       ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-05-12 11:48 ` [patch net-next 2/4] rtnetlink: add HW/SW stats distinction in rtnl_fill_stats Jiri Pirko
2016-05-12 15:51   ` David Miller
2016-05-12 11:48 ` [patch net-next 3/4] net: core: add SW stats to if_stats_msg Jiri Pirko
2016-05-12 11:48 ` [patch net-next 4/4] mlxsw: spectrum: Implement SW stats ndo and expose HW stats by default Jiri Pirko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-05-12  9:59 [patch net-next 0/4] return offloaded stats as default and expose original sw start Jiri Pirko
2016-05-12  9:59 ` [patch net-next 1/4] netdevice: add SW statistics ndo Jiri Pirko

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