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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: roopa@cumulusnetworks•com, davem@davemloft•net,
	stephen@networkplumber•org, jhs@mojatatu•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] bridge: per-vlan stats
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:43:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5721CD1B.7000101@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461773902-13528-1-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

On 04/27/2016 06:18 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Hi,
> This set adds support for bridge per-vlan statistics.
> In order to be able to dump statistics we need a way to continue
> dumping after reaching maximum size, thus patches 01-03 extend the new
> stats API with a per-device extended link stats attribute and callback
> which can save its local state and continue where it left off afterwards.
> I considered using the already existing "fill_xstats" callback but it gets
> confusing since we need to separate the linkinfo dump from the new stats
> api dump and adding a flag/argument to do that just looks messy. I don't
> think the rtnl_link_ops size is an issue, so adding these seemed like the
> cleaner approach.
> 
> Patch 05 converts the pvid to a pointer so we can consolidate the vlan
> stats accounting paths later, also allows to simplify the pvid code.
> Patches 06 and 07 add the stats support and netlink dump support
> respectively.
> I've tested this set with both old and modified iproute2, kmemleak on and
> some traffic stress tests while adding/removing vlans and ports.
> 
> Thank you,
>  Nik
> 
> Note: Jamal I haven't forgotten about the per-port per-vlan stats, I've got
> a follow-up patch that adds it. You can easily see that the infrastructure
> for private port/vlan stats is in place after this set. Though the stats
> api will need some more changes to support that.
> 
> 
[snip]

Self-NAK
I'll post a v2 after a couple of days, I'd like to make some minor changes and also
address the feedback in the process.

Thanks,
 Nik

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 16:18 [PATCH net-next 0/7] bridge: per-vlan stats Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: rtnetlink: allow rtnl_fill_statsinfo to save private state counter Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: rtnetlink: allow only one idx saving stats attribute Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-28  5:18   ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-28  8:40     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add linkxstats callbacks and attribute Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: constify is_skb_forwardable's arguments Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] bridge: vlan: RCUify pvid Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] bridge: vlan: learn to count Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] bridge: netlink: export per-vlan stats Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-27 17:06 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] bridge: " Stephen Hemminger
2016-04-27 17:13   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-04-28  8:43 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]

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