Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 06/11] RDMA/nldev: Add support to get status of all counters

From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mark Zhang <markzhang@nvidia.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Aharon Landau <aharonl@nvidia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>,
	Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com>,
	Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@cornelisnetworks.com>,
	Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>,
	Naresh Kumar PBS <nareshkumar.pbs@broadcom.com>,
	Neta Ostrovsky <netao@nvidia.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@broadcom.com>,
	Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>,
	Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
	Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 06/11] RDMA/nldev: Add support to get status of all counters
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:26:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVRbcXJL/LBaSLLJ@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210928115217.GI964074@nvidia.com>

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:52:17AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 05:12:39PM +0800, Mark Zhang wrote:
> > On 9/28/2021 1:30 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:07:25AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > +static int stat_get_doit_default_counter(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > > > +					 struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> > > > +					 struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
> > > > +					 struct nlattr *tb[])
> > > > +{
> > > > +	struct rdma_hw_stats *stats;
> > > > +	struct ib_device *device;
> > > > +	u32 index, port;
> > > > +	int ret;
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (!tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX] || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_PORT_INDEX])
> > > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > > > +
> > > > +	index = nla_get_u32(tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX]);
> > > > +	device = ib_device_get_by_index(sock_net(skb->sk), index);
> > > > +	if (!device)
> > > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > > > +
> > > > +	port = nla_get_u32(tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_PORT_INDEX]);
> > > > +	if (!rdma_is_port_valid(device, port)) {
> > > > +		ret = -EINVAL;
> > > > +		goto end;
> > > > +	}
> > > > +
> > > > +	stats = ib_get_hw_stats_port(device, port);
> > > > +	if (!stats) {
> > > > +		ret = -EINVAL;
> > > > +		goto end;
> > > > +	}
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_STAT_HWCOUNTER_DYNAMIC])
> > > > +		ret = stat_get_doit_stats_list(skb, nlh, extack, tb,
> > > > +					       device, port, stats);
> > > > +	else
> > > > +		ret = stat_get_doit_stats_values(skb, nlh, extack, tb, device,
> > > > +						 port, stats);
> > > 
> > > This seems strange, why is the output of a get contingent on a ignored
> > > input attribute? Shouldn't the HWCOUNTER_DYNAMIC just always be
> > > emitted?
> > 
> > The CMD_STAT_GET is originally used to get the default hwcounter statistic
> > (the value of all hwstats), now we also want to use this command to get a
> > list of counters (just name and status), so kernel differentiates these 2
> > cases based on HWCOUNTER_DYNAMIC attr.
> 
> Don't do that, it is not how netlink works. Either the whole attribute
> should be returned or you need a new get command

The netlink way is to be independent on returned parameter, if it not
supported, this parameter won't be available at all. This makes HWCOUNTER_DYNAMIC
to work exactly as netlink would do.

Thanks

> 
> Jason 