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From: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp•pl>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, joe@perches•com, davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:50:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170413185042.0e69cb71@cakuba.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492069701-20772-6-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi!

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:48:18 +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> This creates /sys/kernel/debug/ncsi/<eth0>/stats to dump the NCSI
> packets sent and received over all packages and channels. It's useful
> to diagnose NCSI problems, especially when NCSI packages and channels
> aren't probed properly. The statistics can be gained from debugfs file
> as below:
> 
>  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/ncsi/eth0/stats
> 
>  CMD          OK       TIMEOUT  ERROR
>  =======================================
>  CIS          32       29       0
>  SP           10       7        0
>  DP           17       14       0
>  EC           1        0        0
>  ECNT         1        0        0
>  AE           1        0        0
>  GLS          11       0        0
>  SMA          1        0        0
>  EBF          1        0        0
>  GVI          2        0        0
>  GC           2        0        0
> 
>  RSP          OK       TIMEOUT  ERROR
>  =======================================
>  CIS          3        0        0
>  SP           3        0        0
>  DP           2        0        1
>  EC           1        0        0
>  ECNT         1        0        0
>  AE           1        0        0
>  GLS          11       0        0
>  SMA          1        0        0
>  EBF          1        0        0
>  GVI          0        0        2
>  GC           2        0        0
> 
>  AEN          OK       TIMEOUT  ERROR
>  =======================================
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>

I'm not familiar with NC-SI but these look like some standard stats.
Would it make sense to provide a proper netlink API for them?

[...]
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NCSI_DEBUG
> +		ndp->stats.aen[h->type][NCSI_PKT_STAT_ERROR]++;
> +#endif

In any case, did you consider creating a macro or inline helper to
limit the number of #ifdefs?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-14  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-13  7:48 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/8] net/ncsi: Add debugging functionality Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/8] net/ncsi: Disable HWA mode when no channels are found Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/8] net/ncsi: Properly track channel monitor timer state Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/8] net/ncsi: Enforce failover on link monitor timeout Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/8] net/ncsi: Add debugging infrastructurre Gavin Shan
2017-04-13 10:41   ` Joe Perches
2017-04-17 23:22     ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics Gavin Shan
2017-04-13 10:50   ` Joe Perches
2017-04-17 23:23     ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-14  1:50   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2017-04-18  0:14     ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-14  2:30   ` Joe Perches
2017-04-18  0:22     ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 6/8] net/ncsi: Support NCSI packet generation Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 7/8] net/ncsi: No error report on DP response to non-existing package Gavin Shan
2017-04-13  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 8/8] net/ncsi: Fix length of GVI response packet Gavin Shan

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