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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Cc: "mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>, "toke@toke.dk" <toke@toke.dk>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pstaszewski@itcare.pl" <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: consistency for statistics with XDP mode
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 08:45:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44106f83-a2dc-67d8-4b98-20837d2618be@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181201122252.54833841@redhat.com>

On 12/1/18 4:22 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>
>> So we should count all XDP RX packets as successful rx packets i.e
>> netdev->stats.rx_packets++; regardless of the XDP program decision ? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> this implies that XDP_TX packets will be counted twice once in 
>> netdev->stats.rx_packets and once in netdev->stats.tx_packets
> 
> Yes, because the packet was RX'ed on the interface, and then TX'ed on
> the interface.  Users expect to see these packets (ac)counted.

+1

> 
>> I think this is the only valid option if we are going to use standard
>> netdev stats for XDP use cases.
> 
> IMHO XDP_DROP should not be accounted as netdev stats drops, this is a
> user installed program like tc/iptables, that can also choose to drop
> packets.
> 

sure and both tc and iptables have counters that can see the dropped
packets. A counter in the driver level stats ("xdp_drop" is fine with
with me).

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-03 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-21 21:06 consistency for statistics with XDP mode David Ahern
2018-11-21 21:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-11-21 21:29   ` Paweł Staszewski
2018-11-22  0:21     ` Saeed Mahameed
2018-11-22  8:26       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-11-22 16:51         ` David Ahern
2018-11-22 17:00           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-11-30 20:10             ` Saeed Mahameed
2018-11-30 20:30               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-30 20:35                 ` David Ahern
2018-12-01  4:41                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-12-01 11:14                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-12-03 15:56                       ` David Ahern
2018-12-03 19:32                         ` David Miller
2018-11-30 23:54                 ` Saeed Mahameed
2018-12-01 11:22                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-12-03 15:45                     ` David Ahern [this message]
2018-12-03 19:30                       ` David Miller
2018-12-03 19:41                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-12-03 20:00                         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-12-04  0:00                           ` David Miller
2018-12-04  0:15                             ` David Ahern
2018-12-04  0:36                               ` David Miller
2018-12-04  7:03                                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-12-04  7:24                                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-12-04  9:29                                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-12-04 17:56                                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-12-04 18:06                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-24  7:07           ` David Miller
2018-11-22  0:53 ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-22 16:43   ` David Ahern
2018-11-26  1:37     ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-27  7:04       ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-28  4:03         ` Jason Wang
2018-11-28  5:09           ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-26 22:15 ` Jakub Kicinski

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