netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: Add 64bit statistics

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Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:51:03 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Junchang Wang <junchangwang@...il.com>, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: Add 64bit statistics

Le jeudi 17 novembre 2011 à 10:36 +0100, Francois Romieu a écrit :
> Junchang Wang <junchangwang@...il.com> :
> > 
> > Switch to use ndo_get_stats64 to get 64bit statistics.
> > Per cpu data is used to avoid lock operations.
> 
> The 816x chipsets have hardware stats registers. The driver already
> use them. Please use them more.
> 

I would like to mention a possible bias.

I know for that tg3 includes in RX counters frames/bytes that were
dropped (because napi handler couldnot keep up with the load)

They also include FCS in the byte count.

When using software counters, we can compare "ethtool -S" and "ifconfig"
ones.

But generaly speaking, if hardware stats are available we should use
them and save few instructions per packet ;)



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