From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
joe@perches.com, kubakici@wp.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:33:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170421023309.GA3819@gwshan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170420.175858.1747890177363276280.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:58:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:38:12 +1000
>
>> (1) ethtool usually dumps statistics collected by hardware, but this
>> debugfs file dumps the statistics of packets seen (collected) by
>> software.
>
>ethtool is not strictly for hardware statistics, it's often used for
>software maintained values
>
Thanks for the confirm. I'll move the functionalities introduced by
this patchset to ethtool in next respin, as discussed in another
thread.
Cheers,
Gavin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-21 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-18 6:51 [PATCH v3 net-next 0/8] net/ncsi: Add debugging functionality Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/8] net/ncsi: Disable HWA mode when no channels are found Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/8] net/ncsi: Properly track channel monitor timer state Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 3/8] net/ncsi: Enforce failover on link monitor timeout Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 4/8] net/ncsi: Add debugging infrastructurre Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics Gavin Shan
2017-04-20 17:21 ` David Miller
2017-04-20 23:38 ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-21 0:26 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-04-21 0:44 ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-21 0:59 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-04-21 1:35 ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-21 1:43 ` Joe Perches
2017-04-21 0:58 ` David Miller
2017-04-21 2:33 ` Gavin Shan [this message]
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 6/8] net/ncsi: Support NCSI packet generation Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 7/8] net/ncsi: No error report on DP response to non-existing package Gavin Shan
2017-04-18 6:51 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 8/8] net/ncsi: Fix length of GVI response packet Gavin Shan
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