Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 4/5] net: page_pool: make stats available just for global pools

From: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:52:09 +0100

> On 2024/1/29 21:07, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> >> On 2024/1/28 22:20, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> >>> Move page_pool stats allocation in page_pool_create routine and get rid
> >>> of it for percpu page_pools.
> >>
> >> Is there any reason why we do not need those kind stats for per cpu
> >> page_pool?
> >>
> > 
> > IIRC discussing with Jakub, we decided to not support them since the pool is not
> > associated to any net_device in this case.
> 
> It seems what jakub suggested is to 'extend netlink to dump unbound page pools'?

I do not have a strong opinion about it (since we do not have any use-case for
it at the moment).
In the case we want to support stats for per-cpu page_pools, I think we should
not create a per-cpu recycle_stats pointer and add a page_pool_recycle_stats field
in page_pool struct since otherwise we will endup with ncpu^2 copies, right?
Do we want to support it now?

@Jakub, Jesper: what do you guys think?

Regards,
Lorenzo

> > Regards,
> > Lorenzo