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From: Qingfang Deng <qingfang.deng@linux.dev>
To: Zhixing Chen <running910@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ppp: reuse ppp_get_stats64() for ioctl stats
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:30:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e07c280b-d3a8-442d-bf19-f00d544ab26c@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260714091941.33783-1-running910@gmail.com>

Hi,

On 2026/7/14 17:19, Zhixing Chen wrote:
> ppp_get_stats() open-codes the per-cpu tstats aggregation even though
> ppp_get_stats64() already collects the packet, byte and error counters
> needed by the legacy SIOCGPPPSTATS ioctl path.
>
> Reuse ppp_get_stats64() when filling struct ppp_stats. This keeps the
> ioctl stats path consistent with the netdev stats64 path and removes the
> open-coded per-cpu stats aggregation from the ioctl path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhixing Chen <running910@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> This is meant as a small cleanup. The ioctl path and the netdev stats64
> path already use the same underlying counters, so this just makes the
> ioctl path reuse ppp_get_stats64() instead of open-coding the per-cpu
> aggregation locally.

On a 32-bit architecture, this will introduce unnecessary seqlock 
overhead to get the upper 32-bit of a counter, which would then be 
immediately discarded.

Regards,

Qingfang


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-15  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-14  9:19 [PATCH net-next] ppp: reuse ppp_get_stats64() for ioctl stats Zhixing Chen
2026-07-15  5:30 ` Qingfang Deng [this message]
2026-07-15  8:58   ` Zhixing Chen

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