netdev - Re: consistency for statistics with XDP mode

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Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:24:18 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dsahern@...il.com,
        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

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:03:52 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> 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?

That'd be far preferable, having all drivers include the code when we
have JITs seems like a step backward.

We could probably fit the stats into the enormous padding of struct
xdp_rxq_info, the question is - how do we get to it in a clean way..