linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] docs: proc.rst: add softnet

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Message-ID: <ed94e67b-a42b-26de-39a1-70a31828aaea@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Dec 2022 10:40:30 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     yang.yang29@....com.cn, corbet@....net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, hannes@...xchg.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] docs: proc.rst: add softnet_stat to
 /proc/net

On 12/7/22 18:23, yang.yang29@....com.cn wrote:
> From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@....com.cn>
> 
> /proc/net/softnet_stat exists for a long time, but proc.rst miss it.
"..., however it isn't described in /proc/net table of proc.rst
documentation."
> Softnet_stat shows some statistics of struct softnet_data of online
"softnet_stat" (programming language keywords and variable/const name
should always using proper capitalization, i.e. lowercase)
> CPUs. Struct softnet_data manages incoming and output packets
> on per-CPU queues. Notice that fastroute and cpu_collision in
> softnet_stat are obsoleted, their value is always 0.
> 
"Note that ... are obsolete and ..."

For patch subject: "... /proc/net table".

Thanks.

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