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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: <Jerry.Ray@microchip•com>
Cc: <olteanv@gmail•com>, <andrew@lunn•ch>, <f.fainelli@gmail•com>,
	<davem@davemloft•net>, <edumazet@google•com>, <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	<netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] dsa: lan9303: Add 3 ethtool stats
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:36:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221202113622.21289116@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR11MB169342D6B1CC71B8805A741AEF179@MWHPR11MB1693.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 15:22:55 +0000 Jerry.Ray@microchip•com wrote:
> >Huh? I'm guessing you're referring to some patches you have queued
> >already and don't want to rebase across? Or some project planning?
> >Otherwise I don't see a connection :S
> 
> In looking around at other implementations, I see where the link_up
> and link_down are used to start or clean up the periodic workqueue
> used to retrieve and accumulate the mib stats into the driver.  Can't tell
> if that's a requirement or only needed when the device interface is
> considered too slow.  The device interface is not atomic.

Atomic as in it reads over a bus which requires sleeping?
Yes, the stats ndo can't sleep because of the old procfs interface
which ifconfig uses and which is invoked under the RCU lock.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-02 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30 20:08 [PATCH net-next v4] dsa: lan9303: Add 3 ethtool stats Jerry Ray
2022-11-30 20:56 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-12-01 16:42   ` Jerry.Ray
2022-12-01 16:45     ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-12-02 15:22       ` Jerry.Ray
2022-12-02 19:36         ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-12-06 19:55           ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-12-06 22:38             ` Jerry.Ray

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