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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke•dk>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox•com>,
	"pstaszewski\@itcare.pl" <pstaszewski@itcare•pl>,
	"netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Cc: "davem\@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"jasowang\@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	"brouer\@redhat.com" <brouer@redhat•com>,
	"mst\@redhat.com" <mst@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: consistency for statistics with XDP mode
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:00:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2fdm4i6.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a27c28b1-a8c7-5821-ea15-97de0fcb7907@gmail.com>

David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com> writes:

> On 11/22/18 1:26 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox•com> writes:
>> 
>>>>> I'd say it sounds reasonable to include XDP in the normal traffic
>>>>> counters, but having the detailed XDP-specific counters is quite
>>>>> useful
>>>>> as well... So can't we do both (for all drivers)?
>>>>>
>>>
>>> What are you thinking ? 
>>> reporting XDP_DROP in interface dropped counter ?
>>> and XDP_TX/REDIRECT in the TX counter ?
>>> XDP_ABORTED in the  err/drop counter ?
>>>
>>> how about having a special XDP command in the .ndo_bpf that would query
>>> the standardized XDP stats ?
>> 
>> Don't have any strong opinions on the mechanism; just pointing out that
>> the XDP-specific stats are useful to have separately as well :)
>>
>
> I would like to see basic packets, bytes, and dropped counters tracked
> for Rx and Tx via the standard netdev counters for all devices. This is
> for ease in accounting as well as speed and simplicity for bumping
> counters for virtual devices from bpf helpers.
>
> From there, the XDP ones can be in the driver private stats as they are
> currently but with some consistency across drivers for redirects, drops,
> any thing else.
>
> So not a radical departure from where we are today, just getting the
> agreement for consistency and driver owners to make the changes.

Sounds good to me :)

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-23  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-21 21:06 consistency for statistics with XDP mode David Ahern
2018-11-21 21:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-11-21 21:29   ` Paweł Staszewski
2018-11-22  0:21     ` Saeed Mahameed
2018-11-22  8:26       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-11-22 16:51         ` David Ahern
2018-11-22 17:00           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2018-11-30 20:10             ` Saeed Mahameed
2018-11-30 20:30               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-30 20:35                 ` David Ahern
2018-12-01  4:41                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-12-01 11:14                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-12-03 15:56                       ` David Ahern
2018-12-03 19:32                         ` David Miller
2018-11-30 23:54                 ` Saeed Mahameed
2018-12-01 11:22                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-12-03 15:45                     ` David Ahern
2018-12-03 19:30                       ` David Miller
2018-12-03 19:41                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-12-03 20:00                         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-12-04  0:00                           ` David Miller
2018-12-04  0:15                             ` David Ahern
2018-12-04  0:36                               ` David Miller
2018-12-04  7:03                                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-12-04  7:24                                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-12-04  9:29                                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-12-04 17:56                                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-12-04 18:06                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-24  7:07           ` David Miller
2018-11-22  0:53 ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-22 16:43   ` David Ahern
2018-11-26  1:37     ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-27  7:04       ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-28  4:03         ` Jason Wang
2018-11-28  5:09           ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-11-26 22:15 ` Jakub Kicinski

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