netdev - Re: consistency for statistics with XDP mode

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Message-ID: <87sgzdixif.fsf@toke.dk>
Date:   Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:03:52 +0200
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     brouer@...hat.com, saeedm@...lanox.com, mst@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, pstaszewski@...are.pl, jasowang@...hat.com
Subject: Re: consistency for statistics with XDP mode

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:15:03 -0700
>
>> So, instead of a program tag which the program writer controls, how
>> about some config knob that an admin controls that says at attach time
>> use standard stats?
>
> How about, instead of replacing it is in addition to, and admin can
> override?

Yeah, I was also thinking about something the program writer can set,
but the admin can override. There could even be a system-wide setting
that would make the verifier inject it into all programs at load time?

-Toke