netdev - Re: [PATCH net 3/4] net: aquantia: Improve and fix statistics on device

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Message-ID: <20171207190830.GB7240@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 20:08:30 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Igor Russkikh <igor.russkikh@...antia.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Belous <pavel.belous@...antia.com>,
        Nadezhda Krupnina <Nadezhda.Krupnina@...antia.com>,
        Simon Edelhaus <simon.edelhaus@...antia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/4] net: aquantia: Improve and fix statistics on
 device

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:39:44AM +0300, Igor Russkikh wrote:
> 1) Device hardware provides only 32bit counters. Using these directly
> causes byte counters to overflow soon. A separate nic level structure
> with 64 bit counters is now used to collect incrementally all the stats
> and report these counters to ethtool stats and ndev stats.
> 
> 2) ndev stats were filled from ring counters. These sometimes incorrectly
> calculate byte and packet amounts when using LRO/LSO and jumboframes.
> Fill ndev counters from hardware makes them precise.
> 
> 3) Fill in multicast counter in ndev stats from hardware counter
> 
> 4) Improve link state and statistics check interval callback: reduce normal
> timeout from 2 secs to 1 sec. If link is down, reduce it to 500msec. This
> speeds up link detection.
> 
> 5) Reset driver level statistics to zero on initialization
> 
> 6) Fix typo in ethtool statistics names

Hi Igor

This list suggests there should actually be 6 patches, not one.

     Andrew