Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/4] Add BPF htab map's used size for monitoring

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:52 PM Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang
<horenchuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> We have prepared patches to address an issue from a previous discussion.
> The previous discussion email thread is here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQLBt0snxv4bKwg1WKQ9wDFbaDCtZ03v1-LjOTYtsKPckQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Rephrasing what was said earlier.
We're not keeping the count of elements in a preallocated hash map
and we are not going to add one.
The bpf prog needs to do the accounting on its own if it needs
this kind of statistics.
Keeping the count for non-prealloc is already significant performance
overhead. We don't trade performance for stats.