netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] proc: Reduce cache miss in {snmp,netstat}_seq

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Message-ID: <0c4f4f45-ec27-d1d3-45f8-a7ed8a4ca667@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:15:36 +0800
From:   hejianet <hejianet@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] proc: Reduce cache miss in
 {snmp,netstat}_seq_show

Hi Eric


On 8/30/16 12:41 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 00:03 +0800, Jia He wrote:
>> This patch exchanges the two loop for collecting the percpu statistics
>> data. This can aggregate the data by going through all the items of each
>> cpu sequentially. In snmp_seq_show, just use one buff copy to dislay the
>> Udp and UdpLite data because they are the same.
> This is obviously not true.
>
> On my laptop it seems it handled no UdpLite frames, but got plenty of
> Udp ones.
>
> $ grep Udp /proc/net/snmp
> Udp: InDatagrams NoPorts InErrors OutDatagrams RcvbufErrors SndbufErrors InCsumErrors
> Udp: 1555889 108318 0 3740780 0 0 0
> UdpLite: InDatagrams NoPorts InErrors OutDatagrams RcvbufErrors SndbufErrors InCsumErrors
> UdpLite: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thanks, you are right. I misunderstand the comments of source codes.
Will resend it

B.R.
Jia
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