Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 3/3] net: mscc: ocelot: use bulk reads for stats

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 08:07:42AM -0800, Colin Foster wrote:
> # ethtool -S swp1 | head -n 5
> NIC statistics:
>      tx_packets: 942
>      tx_bytes: 48984
>      rx_packets: 764
>      rx_bytes: 37808
> # ethtool -S swp2 | head -n 5
> NIC statistics:
>      tx_packets: 946
>      tx_bytes: 49192
>      rx_packets: 1
>      rx_bytes: 46
> # ethtool -S swp3 | head -n 5
> NIC statistics:
>      tx_packets: 1
>      tx_bytes: 52
>      rx_packets: 1699
>      rx_bytes: 80658
> # ethtool -S swp4 | head -n 5
> NIC statistics:
>      tx_packets: 0
>      tx_bytes: 0
>      rx_packets: 0
>      rx_bytes: 0

I understand what confused you now. These are software counters patched
in by dsa_slave_get_ethtool_stats(). They are in no way the counters
from felix_info :: stats_layout, please compare the strings!