netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 11/17] RDMA/netlink: Implement counter dumpit calback

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Message-ID: <20190529113107.GX4633@mtr-leonro.mtl.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 14:31:07 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Majd Dibbiny <majd@...lanox.com>,
        Mark Zhang <markz@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 11/17] RDMA/netlink: Implement counter
 dumpit calback

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:21:37PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:34:47AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Mark Zhang <markz@...lanox.com>
> >
> > This patch adds the ability to return all available counters
> > together with their properties and hwstats.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Zhang <markz@...lanox.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Majd Dibbiny <majd@...lanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> >  drivers/infiniband/core/counters.c |  28 +++++
> >  drivers/infiniband/core/device.c   |   2 +
> >  drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c    | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h            |  10 ++
> >  include/rdma/rdma_counter.h        |   3 +
> >  include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h   |  10 +-
> >  6 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/counters.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/counters.c
> > index 665e0d43c21b..36cd9eca1e46 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/counters.c
> > @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ static struct rdma_counter *rdma_counter_alloc(struct ib_device *dev, u8 port,
> >  {
> >  	struct rdma_counter *counter;
> >
> > +	if (!dev->ops.counter_alloc_stats)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +
>
> Seems weird to add this now, why was it Ok to have counters prior to
> this patch?

Prior to this patch, "sysfs" counters and "netlink" counters were
independent from user perspective.

Thanks

>
> Jason