linux-kernel - Re: [v1,net-next 1/5] net: qos offload add flow status with dropped count

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:01:46 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Po Liu <Po.Liu@....com>
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Subject: Re: [v1,net-next  1/5] net: qos offload add flow status with dropped
 count

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:47:39AM CET, Po.Liu@....com wrote:
>Add the hardware tc flower offloading with dropped frame counter for
>status update. action ops->stats_update only loaded by the
>tcf_exts_stats_update() and tcf_exts_stats_update() only loaded by
>matchall and tc flower hardware filter. But the stats_update only set
>the dropped count as default false in the ops->stats_update. This
>patch add the dropped counter to action stats update. Its dropped counter
>update by the hardware offloading driver.
>This is changed by replacing the drop flag with dropped frame counter.

I just read this paragraph 3 times, I'm unable to decypher :(



>
>Driver side should update how many "packets" it filtered and how many
>"dropped" in those "packets".
>

[...]


> 	return action;
> }
> 
>-static void tcf_gact_stats_update(struct tc_action *a, u64 bytes, u32 packets,
>-				  u64 lastuse, bool hw)
>+static void tcf_gact_stats_update(struct tc_action *a, u64 bytes, u64 packets,
>+				  u64 lastuse, u64 dropped, bool hw)
> {
> 	struct tcf_gact *gact = to_gact(a);
> 	int action = READ_ONCE(gact->tcf_action);
> 	struct tcf_t *tm = &gact->tcf_tm;
> 
>-	tcf_action_update_stats(a, bytes, packets, action == TC_ACT_SHOT, hw);
>+	tcf_action_update_stats(a, bytes, packets,
>+				(action == TC_ACT_SHOT) ? packets : 0, hw);

Avoid ()s here.


> 	tm->lastuse = max_t(u64, tm->lastuse, lastuse);
> }
>