Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: enetc: correct the statistics of rx bytes

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Fri Jun 02 2023 - 06:31:49 EST


Hi Wei,

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 05:46:58PM +0800, wei.fang@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Wei Fang <wei.fang@xxxxxxx>
>
> The rx_bytes of struct net_device_stats should count the length of
> ethernet frames excluding the FCS. However, there are two problems
> with the rx_bytes statistics of the current enetc driver. one is
> that the length of VLAN header is not counted if the VLAN extraction
> feature is enabled. The other is that the length of L2 header is not
> counted, because eth_type_trans() is invoked before updating rx_bytes
> which will subtract the length of L2 header from skb->len.

Thanks for noticing the issue and for sending a patch.

> BTW, the rx_bytes statistics of XDP path also have similar problem,
> I will fix it in another patch.
>
> Fixes: a800abd3ecb9 ("net: enetc: move skb creation into enetc_build_skb")
> Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
> index 3c4fa26f0f9b..d6c0f3f46c2a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
> @@ -1229,7 +1229,13 @@ static int enetc_clean_rx_ring(struct enetc_bdr *rx_ring,
> if (!skb)
> break;
>
> - rx_byte_cnt += skb->len;
> + /* When set, the outer VLAN header is extracted and reported
> + * in the receive buffer descriptor. So rx_byte_cnt should
> + * add the length of the extracted VLAN header.
> + */
> + if (bd_status & ENETC_RXBD_FLAG_VLAN)
> + rx_byte_cnt += VLAN_HLEN;
> + rx_byte_cnt += skb->len + ETH_HLEN;

Hmm, to avoid the conditional, have you considered adding an "int *rx_byte_cnt"
argument to enetc_build_skb()? It can be updated with "(*rx_byte_cnt) += size"
from all places where we already have "(*cleaned_cnt)++".

> rx_frm_cnt++;
>
> napi_gro_receive(napi, skb);
> --
> 2.25.1
>