netdev - Re: Tools for sampling ethtool --statistics

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:21:42 +0200
From:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tools for sampling ethtool --statistics

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@...hat.com> wrote:

> I wrote a small tool[1] to extract ethtool --statistics|-S, sample and
> present it in a more human readable manor.  You might also find this useful...
[..]

> The reason I wrote this script is that the mlx5 driver (Mellanox 100 Gbit/s)
> does not report correct ifconfig stats.  It reports the HW counters,
> not what the network stack is able to handle.  I/we obviously need the
> stack number when working on improving the stack.

Hi Jesper,

So... we finally fixed that, see

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/587298/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/587296/

Or.