netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] mpls: Packet stats

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Message-ID: <5879599C.4080509@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:50:04 -0800
From:   Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
CC:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] mpls: Packet stats

On 1/13/17, 10:14 AM, Robert Shearman wrote:
> This patchset records per-interface packet stats in the MPLS
> forwarding path and exports them using a nest of attributes root at a
> new IFLA_STATS_AF_SPEC attribute as part of RTM_GETSTATS messages:
>
> [IFLA_STATS_AF_SPEC]
>  -> [AF_MPLS]
>   -> [MPLS_STATS_LINK]
>    -> struct mpls_link_stats
>
> The first patch adds the rtnl infrastructure for this, including a new
> callbacks to per-AF ops of fill_stats_af and get_stats_af_size. The
> second patch records MPLS stats and makes use of the infrastructure to
> export them. The rtnl infrastructure could also be used to export IPv6
> stats in the future.
>
> Robert Shearman (2):
>   net: AF-specific RTM_GETSTATS attributes
>   mpls: Packet stats
>
LGTM, thanks Robert