From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
To: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel•org>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] sundance: Add initial ethtool stats support
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:27:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101009132749.GA15074@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101009095346.GA12951@hera.kernel.org>
Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> Add initial ethtool statistics support
[...]
> +static void get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
> + struct ethtool_stats *stats, u64 *data)
> +{
> + struct net_device_stats *netdev_stats = get_stats(dev);
> + int i = 0;
> +
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_packets;
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_bytes;
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->rx_packets;
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->rx_bytes;
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_errors;
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_dropped;
> + data[i++] = netdev_stats->rx_errors;
> +}
[...]
There is no point in adding ethtool stats that merely mirror the baseline
net device stats.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-09 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-09 9:53 [PATCH -next] sundance: Add initial ethtool stats support Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-09 12:17 ` [PATCH net-next] sundance: get_stats proper locking Eric Dumazet
2010-10-09 16:24 ` David Miller
2010-10-09 12:33 ` [PATCH -next] sundance: Add initial ethtool stats support Eric Dumazet
2010-10-09 13:27 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-10-09 14:40 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-09 19:41 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-09 21:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-10-12 18:51 ` David Miller
2010-10-12 20:36 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-12 20:57 ` Joe Perches
2010-10-13 6:06 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-13 6:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-13 7:02 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-13 10:28 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-13 10:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-13 10:56 ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-10-13 19:44 ` Eric Dumazet
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