Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/1] net: dsa: microchip: add stats64 support for ksz8 series of switches

From: Oleksij Rempel
Date: Wed Dec 07 2022 - 01:16:43 EST


On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 11:41:33AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 06:29:04 +0100 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > + stats->rx_packets = raw->rx_bcast + raw->rx_mcast + raw->rx_ucast +
> > + raw->rx_pause;
> > + stats->tx_packets = raw->tx_bcast + raw->tx_mcast + raw->tx_ucast +
> > + raw->tx_pause;
>
> FWIW for normal netdevs / NICs the rtnl_link_stat pkts do not include
> pause frames, normally. Otherwise one can't maintain those stats in SW
> (and per-ring stats, if any, don't add up to the full link stats).
> But if you have a good reason to do this - I won't nack..

Pause frames are accounted by rx/tx_bytes by HW. Since pause frames may
have different size, it is not possible to correct byte counters, so I
need to add them to the packet counters.

Regards,
Oleksij
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