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From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"nhorman@redhat.com" <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	"sassmann@redhat.com" <sassmann@redhat.com>,
	"jogreene@redhat.com" <jogreene@redhat.com>,
	guru.anbalagane@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 02/15] i40e: Enable VF specific ethtool statistics via VF Port representor netdevs
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:59:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57E221B3.2000004@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3xEMhM63HxyQxv3YyN7Lb3uCOWsA3aqfkhnuzdJqtNRty8Zw@mail.gmail.com>


On 9/20/2016 9:26 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:43 AM, Jeff Kirsher
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> wrote:
>> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
>>
>> Sample script that shows ethtool stats on VF representor netdev
>> PF: enp5s0f0, VF0: enp5s2  VF_REP0: enp5s0f0-vf0
>>
>>     # echo 2 > /sys/class/net/enp5s0f0/device/sriov_numvfs
>>     # ip link set enp5s2 up
>>     # ethtool -S enp5s0f0-vf0
>>     NIC statistics:
>>       tx_bytes: 0
>>       tx_unicast: 0
>>       tx_multicast: 0
>>       tx_broadcast: 0
>>       tx_discards: 0
>>       tx_errors: 0
>>       rx_bytes: 140
>>       rx_unicast: 0
>>       rx_multicast: 2
>>       rx_broadcast: 0
>>       rx_discards: 0
>>       rx_unknown_protocol: 0
> Now, when the SW stats are finally upstream for 4.9 in net-next, the
> correct approach
> for the VF reps counters is to follow the architecture presented there
> [1] -- and this is
> for the netlink based standard counters. Once you do that, there's no
> need to expose
> the VF HW counters through  ethtool of the VF rep.
Sure. Will look into it.  However, i think we can keep ethtool support 
also as VFPR
represents the switch port corresponding to the VF.

>
> Or.
>
>
> [1] offloaded stats commits
> a5ea31f Merge branch 'net-offloaded-stats'
> fc1bbb0 mlxsw: spectrum: Implement offload stats ndo and expose HW
> stats by default
> 69ae6ad net: core: Add offload stats to if_stats_msg
> 2c9d85d netdevice: Add offload statistics ndo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-21  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-21  3:43 [net-next 00/15][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2016-09-20 Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 01/15] i40e: Introduce VF port representor/control netdevs Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  4:22   ` Or Gerlitz
2016-09-21  5:45     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2016-09-21  7:04       ` Or Gerlitz
2016-09-21 16:59         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2016-09-21 19:21           ` Or Gerlitz
2016-09-21 21:23             ` Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 02/15] i40e: Enable VF specific ethtool statistics via VF Port representor netdevs Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  4:26   ` Or Gerlitz
2016-09-21  5:59     ` Samudrala, Sridhar [this message]
2016-09-21  6:54       ` Or Gerlitz
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 03/15] i40e: Introduce devlink interface Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 04/15] i40e: fix setting user defined RSS hash key Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 05/15] i40e: fix "dump port" command when NPAR enabled Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 06/15] i40e: return correct opcode to VF Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 07/15] i40e: Fix to check for NULL Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 08/15] i40e: Fix for extra byte swap in tunnel setup Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 09/15] i40e: avoid potential null pointer dereference when assigning len Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 10/15] i40e: Add support for switchdev API for Switch ID Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 11/15] i40evf: Fix link state event handling Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 12/15] i40e: Sync link state between VFs and VF Port representors(VFPR) Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 13/15] i40evf: remove unnecessary error checking against i40evf_up_complete Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 14/15] i40e: Limit TX descriptor count in cases where frag size is greater than 16K Jeff Kirsher
2016-09-21  3:43 ` [net-next 15/15] i40evf: remove unnecessary error checking against i40e_shutdown_adminq Jeff Kirsher

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