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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	Sanman Pradhan <sanman.p211993@gmail.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, alexanderduyck@fb.com,
	kernel-team@meta.com, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net,
	mohsin.bashr@gmail.com, sanmanpradhan@meta.com,
	andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev,
	jdamato@fastly.com, sdf@fomichev.me, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] eth: fbnic: Add PCIe hardware statistics
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 16:09:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241106160958.6d287fd8@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76fdd29a-c7fa-4b99-ae63-cce17c91dae9@lunn.ch>

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:36:16 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > How would this be done in the PCI core?  As far as I can tell, all
> > these registers are device-specific and live in some device BAR.  
> 
> Is this a licences PCIe core?
> 
> Could the same statistics appear in other devices which licence the
> same core? Maybe this needs pulling out into a helper?

The core is licensed but I believe the _USER in the defines names means
the stats sit in the integration logic not the licensed IP. I could be
wrong.

> If this is true, other uses of this core might not be networking
> hardware, so ethtool -S would not be the best interfaces. Then they
> should appear in debugfs?

I tried to push back on adding PCIe config to network tooling,
and nobody listened. Look at all the PCI stuff in devlink params.
Some vendors dump PCIe signal integrity into ethtool -S

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-07  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-06  0:26 [PATCH net-next] eth: fbnic: Add PCIe hardware statistics Sanman Pradhan
2024-11-06  0:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-06  0:49 ` Joe Damato
2024-11-07  2:14   ` Sanman Pradhan
2024-11-06 12:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-06 17:12   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2024-11-06 17:36     ` Andrew Lunn
2024-11-07  0:09       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-11-07  8:23         ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-07 11:30           ` Vadim Fedorenko
2024-11-07 12:03             ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-07 15:40               ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-07 16:42                 ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-06 17:50     ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-06 21:17       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2024-11-07  8:11         ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-11-06 17:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2024-11-07  2:16   ` Sanman Pradhan

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