Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats

From: roopa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 23:37:00 -0700

On 3/14/16, 8:11 AM, Elad Raz wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
>> On Behalf Of Roopa Prabhu
>> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 3:56 AM
>> To: [email-masked]
>> Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
>> Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to
>> dump link stats
>>
>> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>>
[snip]
>> Future possible new types of stat attributes:
>> - IFLA_MPLS_STATS  (nested. for mpls/mdev stats)
>> - IFLA_EXTENDED_STATS (nested. extended software netdev stats like
>> bridge,
>>   vlan, vxlan etc)
>> - IFLA_EXTENDED_HW_STATS (nested. extended hardware stats which are
>>   available via ethtool today)
>>
>> This patch also declares a filter mask for all stat attributes.
>> User has to provide a mask of stats attributes to query. This will be
>> specified in a new hdr 'struct if_stats_msg' for stats messages.
>>
>> Without any attributes in the filter_mask, no stats will be returned.
>>
>> This patch has been tested with modified iproute2 ifstat.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  
[snip]
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
>> b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h index ca764b5..2bbb300 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
>> @@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ enum {
>>  	RTM_GETNSID = 90,
>>  #define RTM_GETNSID RTM_GETNSID
>>
>> +	RTM_NEWSTATS = 92,
>> +#define RTM_NEWSTATS RTM_NEWSTATS
> I think that RTM_NEWSTATS and RTM_DELSTATS aren't good names, since user doesn't add/del statistics but only query.
> Maybe just stay with RTM_GETSTATS and the message back to user will be RTM_GETSTATS as well?

yeah, i defined all of these because rtnetlink_rcv_msg seems to expect all three to be
there when it tries to check if it is a get msg. But, i could sure not declare this
but make rtnetlink_rcv_msg happy by keeping the GET msg at the right offset.

The RTM_NEWSTATS i thought i should leave it in there because the original thought from
jamal also had periodic stats notification to user-space...which should be RTM_NEWSTATS.
 But, then again that can be added  when we implement that function.

>
>> +	RTM_DELSTATS = 93,
>> +#define RTM_DELSTATS RTM_DELSTATS
> This is not in used
>
>
same response as above. will drop some of them in v2.