netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next,v2 05/12] cls_flower: add statistics retrieval infrastructure and use it

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:04:16 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v2 05/12] cls_flower: add statistics retrieval
 infrastructure and use it

Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 03:48:50PM CET, pablo@...filter.org wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 02:57:05PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:15:12AM CET, pablo@...filter.org wrote:
>[...]
>> >diff --git a/include/net/pkt_cls.h b/include/net/pkt_cls.h
>> >index 7d7aefa5fcd2..7f9a8d5ca945 100644
>> >--- a/include/net/pkt_cls.h
>> >+++ b/include/net/pkt_cls.h
>> >@@ -758,6 +758,12 @@ enum tc_fl_command {
>> > 	TC_CLSFLOWER_TMPLT_DESTROY,
>> > };
>> > 
>> >+struct tc_cls_flower_stats {
>> >+	u64	pkts;
>> >+	u64	bytes;
>> >+	u64	lastused;
>> >+};
>> >+
>> > struct tc_cls_flower_offload {
>> > 	struct tc_cls_common_offload common;
>> > 	enum tc_fl_command command;
>> >@@ -765,6 +771,7 @@ struct tc_cls_flower_offload {
>> > 	struct flow_rule rule;
>> > 	struct tcf_exts *exts;
>> > 	u32 classid;
>> >+	struct tc_cls_flower_stats stats;
>> > };
>> > 
>> > static inline struct flow_rule *
>> >@@ -773,6 +780,14 @@ tc_cls_flower_offload_flow_rule(struct tc_cls_flower_offload *tc_flow_cmd)
>> > 	return &tc_flow_cmd->rule;
>> > }
>> > 
>> >+static inline void tc_cls_flower_stats_update(struct tc_cls_flower_offload *cls_flower,
>> >+					      u64 pkts, u64 bytes, u64 lastused)
>> >+{
>> >+	cls_flower->stats.pkts		= pkts;
>> >+	cls_flower->stats.bytes		= bytes;
>> >+	cls_flower->stats.lastused	= lastused;
>> 
>> Why do you need to store the values here in struct tc_cls_flower_offload?
>> Why don't you just call tcf_exts_stats_update()? Basically,
>> tc_cls_flower_stats_update() should be just wrapper around
>> tcf_exts_stats_update() so that drivers wouldn't use ->exts directly, as
>> you will remove them in follow-up patches, no?
>
>Patch 07/12 stops exposing tc action exts to drivers, so we need a
>structure (struct tc_cls_flower_stats) to convey this statistics back
>to the cls_flower frontend.

Hmm, shouldn't these stats be rather flow_rule related than flower
related?