netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] flow_offload: Re-add per-action statistics

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Message-ID: <20190523091154.73ec6ccd@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 May 2019 09:11:54 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] flow_offload: Re-add per-action
 statistics

On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:19:49 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 2019-05-22 6:20 p.m., Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 May 2019 22:37:16 +0100, Edward Cree wrote:  
> >> * removed RFC tags  
> > 
> > Why?  There is still no upstream user for this (my previous
> > objections of this being only partially correct aside).  
> 
> 
> IIRC your point was to get the dumping to work with RTM_GETACTION.

Yup.

> That would still work here, no? There will be some latency
> based on the frequency of hardware->kernel stats updates.

I don't think so, I think the stats are only updated on classifier
dumps in Ed's code.  But we can't be 100% sure without seeing driver
code.