From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"andrew@lunn.ch" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"f.fainelli@gmail.com" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
"vivien.didelot@gmail.com" <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
"kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>,
Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>,
Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] net: dsa: add plumbing for custom netdev statistics
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 15:09:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f10bf4-4154-2207-6554-e44ba05eed8a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201018121640.jwzj6ivpis4gh4ki@skbuf>
On 18.10.2020 14:16, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 02:02:46PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> Wouldn't a simple unsigned long (like in struct net_device_stats) be
>> sufficient here? This would make handling the counter much simpler.
>> And as far as I understand we talk about a packet counter that is
>> touched in certain scenarios only.
>
> I don't understand, in what sense 'sufficient'? This counter is exported
> to ethtool which works with u64 values, how would an unsigned long,
> which is u32 on 32-bit systems, help?
>
Sufficient for me means that it's unlikely that a 32 bit counter will
overflow. Many drivers use the 32 bit counters (on a 32bit system) in
net_device_stats for infrequent events like rx/tx errors, and 64bit
counters only for things like rx/tx bytes, which are more likely to
overflow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-18 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-17 21:35 [RFC PATCH 00/13] Generic TX reallocation for DSA Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:35 ` [RFC PATCH 01/13] net: dsa: add plumbing for custom netdev statistics Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 22:13 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-17 23:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-18 0:23 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 12:02 ` Heiner Kallweit
2020-10-18 12:16 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 13:09 ` Heiner Kallweit [this message]
2020-10-18 13:48 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 14:13 ` Heiner Kallweit
2020-10-18 22:58 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 23:11 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-19 0:21 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-19 3:49 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-19 12:05 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-19 16:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-18 16:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-18 17:36 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-18 18:26 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-18 18:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 02/13] net: dsa: implement a central TX reallocation procedure Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 22:01 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 22:11 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-17 22:17 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 0:37 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-19 8:33 ` David Laight
2020-10-19 10:30 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-19 11:14 ` David Laight
2020-10-19 11:41 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-19 12:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-17 22:31 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 0:13 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 10:36 ` Christian Eggers
2020-10-18 11:42 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-18 11:59 ` Christian Eggers
2020-10-18 12:15 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 03/13] net: dsa: tag_ksz: don't allocate additional memory for padding/tagging Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 04/13] net: dsa: trailer: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 05/13] net: dsa: tag_qca: let DSA core deal with TX reallocation Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 06/13] net: dsa: tag_ocelot: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 07/13] net: dsa: tag_mtk: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 08/13] net: dsa: tag_lan9303: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 09/13] net: dsa: tag_edsa: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 10/13] net: dsa: tag_brcm: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 11/13] net: dsa: tag_dsa: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 12/13] net: dsa: tag_gswip: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 22:19 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] net: dsa: tag_ar9331: " Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-17 23:07 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13] Generic TX reallocation for DSA Andrew Lunn
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