netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] flow_offload: restore ability to collect separate stats per action

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Date:   Sat, 18 May 2019 16:35:56 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] flow_offload: restore ability to
 collect separate stats per action

On 2019-05-15 3:42 p.m., Edward Cree wrote:
> In the TC_CLSFLOWER_STATS callback from fl_hw_update_stats(), pass an
>   array of struct flow_stats_entry, one for each action in the flow rule.
> Current drivers (which do not collect per-action stats, but rather per-
>   rule) call flow_stats_update() in a loop with the same values for all
>   actions; this is roughly what they did before 3b1903ef97c0, except that
>   there is not a helper function (like tcf_exts_stats_update()) that does
>   it for them, because we don't want to encourage future drivers to do
>   the same thing (and there isn't a need for a preempt_disable() like in
>   tcf_exts_stats_update()).
> 
> Also do the same in mall_stats_hw_filter()'s TC_CLSMATCHALL_STATS
>   callback, since it also uses tcf_exts_stats_update().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>

Looks good to me.
Your patch doesnt have U32. IIRC, I have seen stats on ixgbe with the
u32 classifier last time i mucked around with it
(maybe Pablo's changes removed it?).

cheers,
jamal