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Date:   Sat, 2 Feb 2019 14:27:26 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp, jasowang@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        hawk@...nel.org,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <thoiland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on
 sending xdp_frames

On 1/31/19 1:15 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>
>> David, Jesper, care to chime in where we ended up in that last thread
>> discussion this?
> 
> IHMO packets RX and TX on a device need to be accounted, in standard
> counters, regardless of XDP.  For XDP RX the packet is counted as RX,
> regardless if XDP choose to XDP_DROP.  On XDP TX which is via
> XDP_REDIRECT or XDP_TX, the driver that transmit the packet need to
> account the packet in a TX counter (this if often delayed to DMA TX
> completion handling).  We cannot break the expectation that RX and TX
> counter are visible to userspace stats tools. XDP should not make these
> packets invisible.

Agreed. What I was pushing on that last thread was Rx, Tx and dropped
are all accounted by the driver in standard stats. Basically if the
driver touched it, the driver's counters should indicate that.

The push back was on dropped packets and whether that counter should be
bumped on XDP_DROP.

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