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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics
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From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:51:32 +1000

> This creates /sys/kernel/debug/ncsi/<eth0>/stats to dump the NCSI
> packets sent and received over all packages and channels. It's useful
> to diagnose NCSI problems, especially when NCSI packages and channels
> aren't probed properly. The statistics can be gained from debugfs file
> as below:
> 
>  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/ncsi/eth0/stats

There is no reason you cannot use ethtool statistics to provide this
information to the user.