netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] virtio-net: initial debugfs support, export mergeable rx buffer size

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Message-ID: <CANJ5vPLzDr9J4MXiamkTxGBAEnVoyWPvUvG9+KyAFGf6XV+S7w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:36:53 -0800
From:	Michael Dalton <mwdalton@...gle.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	lf-virt <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] virtio-net: initial debugfs support,
 export mergeable rx buffer size

Also, one other note: if we use sysfs, the directory structure will
be different depending on our chosen sysfs strategy. If we augment
netdev_rx_queue, the new attributes will be found in the standard
'rx-<N>' netdev subdirectory, e.g.,
/sys/class/net/eth0/queues/rx-0/mergeable_rx_buffer_size

Whereas if we use per-netdev attributes, our attributes would be in
/sys/class/net/eth0/<group name>/<attribute name>, which may be
less intuitive as AFAICT we'd have to indicate both the queue # and
type of value being reported using the attribute name. E.g.,
/sys/class/net/eth0/virtio-net/rx-0_mergeable_buffer_size.
That's somewhat less elegant.

I don't see an easy way to add new attributes to the 'rx-<N>'
subdirectories without directly modifying struct netdev_rx_queue,
so I think this is another tradeoff between the two sysfs approaches.

Best,

Mike
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