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Message-ID: <20110112210518.GA2152@del.dom.local>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:05:18 +0100
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>,
Neil Jones <neiljay@...il.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove dev_txq_stats_fold()
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 ?? 14:52 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>
> > Or even better, remove these counters since there is no users left but
> > ixgbe.
> >
> > (vlans, tunnels, ... now use percpu stats)
> >
> >
>
> Thanks Jarek for the reminder :)
>
> [PATCH] net: remove dev_txq_stats_fold()
>
> After recent changes, (percpu stats on vlan/tunnels...), we dont need
> anymore per struct netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters.
>
> Only remaining users are ixgbe, sch_teql & macvlan :
And gianfar (not counting staging/bcm) but I'm not sure if that's all.
>
> 1) ixgbe can be converted to use existing tx_ring counters.
>
> 2) macvlan incremented txq->tx_dropped, it can use the
> dev->stats.tx_dropped counter.
>
> 3) sch_teql : almost revert ab35cd4b8f42 (Use net_device internal stats)
> Now we have ndo_get_stats64(), use it.
Btw, why doesn't sch_teql need locking (for 32-bits)?
Jarek P.
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