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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 12:08:41 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Nick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, haren@linux.ibm.com, ricklind@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ibmvnic: Add stat for tx direct vs tx batched
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:56:34PM -0500, Nick Child wrote:
> Allow tracking of packets sent with send_subcrq direct vs
> indirect. `ethtool -S <dev>` will now provide a counter
> of the number of uses of each xmit method. This metric will
> be useful in performance debugging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>

Hi Nick,

While I see that this patch relates to patch 2/2, and I agree that patch
2/2 is net material, this patch seems more like an enhancement and
thus suitable for net-next.

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