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Message-ID: <Zs9BSOnKVdnsXcRf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:24:56 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: Maksym Kutsevol <max@...sevol.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netcons: Add udp send fail statistics to netconsole

Hello Maksym,

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 11:03:09AM -0400, Maksym Kutsevol wrote:

> > Stats as an array are quite hard to read / understand

> I agree with that.
> I couldn't find examples of multiple values exported as stats from
> configfs. Only from sysfs,
> e.g. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/block/stat.txt, which
> describes a whitespace
> separated file with stats.
> 
> I want to lean on the opinion of someone more experienced in kernel
> dev on how to proceed here.
> - as is
> - whitespace separated like blockdev stats
> - multiple files and stop talking about it? :)

Do we really need both stats/numbers here? Would it be easier if we just have
a "dropped_packet" counter that count packets that netconsole dropped
for one reason or another?

I don't see statistics for lack of memory in regular netdev interfaces.
We probably don't need it for netconsole.

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