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Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:00:39 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, nogahf@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com, eladr@...lanox.com, yotamg@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, linville@...driver.com, tgraf@...g.ch, gospo@...ulusnetworks.com, sfeldma@...il.com, sd@...asysnail.net, eranbe@...lanox.com, ast@...mgrid.com, edumazet@...gle.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/4] netdevice: add SW statistics ndo Sun, May 15, 2016 at 05:44:11PM CEST, andrew@...n.ch wrote: >> I think we don/t understand each other. HW stats always include SW >> stats. Because whatever goes in or out goes through HW. > >Hi Jiri > >Bit of a corner case, but what about multicast and broadcast? Can you >do the replication in the switch, so that only a single copy is sent >from the host to the switch? If kernel is originator of such packets, it always sends them through specific netdevs.
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