From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] [PATCH 4/4] bonding: add sysfs files to display tlb and alb hash table contents Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:00:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20090928200056.3ed2616a@nehalam> References: <20090911211317.GT8515@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <20090928162237.6db0c9f5@nehalam> <20090929001203.GE4436@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <20090928173420.07e9dfad@nehalam> <20090929013713.GG4436@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andy Gospodarek , netdev@vger.kernel.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Andy Gospodarek Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:59142 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752677AbZI2DA7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:00:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090929013713.GG4436@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:37:13 -0400 Andy Gospodarek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:34:20PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:12:03 -0400 > > Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:13:17 -0400 > > > > Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > bonding: add sysfs files to display tlb and alb hash table contents > > > > > > > > > > While debugging some problems with alb (mode 6) bonding I realized that > > > > > being able to output the contents of both hash tables would be helpful. > > > > > This is what the output looks like for the two files: > > > > > > > > > > device load > > > > > eth1 491 > > > > > eth2 491 > > > > > hash device last device tx bytes load next previous > > > > > 2 eth1 eth1 2254 491 0 0 > > > > > 3 eth2 eth2 2744 491 0 0 > > > > > 6 eth2 0 488 0 0 > > > > > 8 eth2 0 461698 0 0 > > > > > 1b eth2 0 249 0 0 > > > > > eb eth2 0 21 0 0 > > > > > ff eth2 0 22 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > hash ip_src ip_dst mac_dst slave assign ntt > > > > > 2 10.0.3.2 10.0.3.11 00:e0:81:71:ee:a9 eth1 1 0 > > > > > 3 10.0.3.2 10.0.3.10 00:e0:81:71:ee:a9 eth2 1 0 > > > > > 8 10.0.3.2 10.0.3.1 00:e0:81:71:ee:a9 eth2 1 0 > > > > > > > > > > These were a great help debugging the fixes I have just posted and they > > > > > might be helpful for others, so I decided to include them in my > > > > > patchset. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek > > > > > > > > No. > > > > > > > > Please don't put formatted output in sysfs, it is not meant to be > > > > used like proc, there is supposed to be only one value per file. > > > > > > Then based on the over 300 files in /sys/ that are more than 1 line on > > > my currently running kernel, it seems there is significant work to do. > > > > > > Seemingly arbitrary requests like this are extremely annoying when the > > > current kernel violates them all over the place. > > > > > > > The rules are documented in Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt. If you want > > to change the rules, submit a change to the rules. > > > > That specific request is actually in filesystems/sysfs.txt in the > 'Attributes' section, but the fact that it's actually outlined somewhere > makes the request seem less 'arbitrary.' ;-) > Ah, that is where the note is: ---------------------- Attributes ~~~~~~~~~~ Attributes can be exported for kobjects in the form of regular files in the filesystem. Sysfs forwards file I/O operations to methods defined for the attributes, providing a means to read and write kernel attributes. Attributes should be ASCII text files, preferably with only one value per file. It is noted that it may not be efficient to contain only one value per file, so it is socially acceptable to express an array of values of the same type. Mixing types, expressing multiple lines of data, and doing fancy formatting of data is heavily frowned upon. Doing these things may get you publically humiliated and your code rewritten without notice. --