Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] net: dsa: add plumbing for custom netdev statistics

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:36:49 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 09:49:51AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > +	struct u64_stats_sync	syncp;
> > > +} __aligned(1 * sizeof(u64));  
> > 
> > Why aligned to u64? Compiler should pick a reasonable alignment here 
> > by itself.  
> 
> Hi Jakub
> 
> I wondered that as well. But:
> 
> struct gnet_stats_basic_cpu {
>         struct gnet_stats_basic_packed bstats;
>         struct u64_stats_sync syncp;
> } __aligned(2 * sizeof(u64));
> 
> /* often modified stats are per-CPU, other are shared (netdev->stats) */
> struct pcpu_sw_netstats {
>         u64     rx_packets;
>         u64     rx_bytes;
>         u64     tx_packets;
>         u64     tx_bytes;
>         struct u64_stats_sync   syncp;
> } __aligned(4 * sizeof(u64));
> 
> struct pcpu_lstats {
>         u64_stats_t packets;
>         u64_stats_t bytes;
>         struct u64_stats_sync syncp;
> } __aligned(2 * sizeof(u64));
> 
> Cargo cult or is there a real need?

Hm, looks like the intent is to enforce power of two alignment 
to prevent the structure from spanning cache lines. Doesn't make 
any difference for 1 counter, but I guess we can keep the style 
for consistency.