netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] Add drop monitor for offloaded data paths

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jul 2019 08:05:29 -0400
From:   Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        jiri@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com, dsahern@...il.com,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
        andy@...yhouse.net, pablo@...filter.org,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, pieter.jansenvanvuuren@...ronome.com,
        andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com, idosch@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] Add drop monitor for offloaded data paths

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 08:40:34PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/11/2019 4:53 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> >> I would like to emphasize that the configuration of whether these
> >> dropped packets are even sent to the CPU from the device still needs to
> >> reside in devlink given this is the go-to tool for device-specific
> >> configuration. In addition, these drop traps are a small subset of the
> >> entire packet traps devices support and all have similar needs such as
> >> HW policer configuration and statistics.
> >>
> >> In the future we might also want to report events that indicate the
> >> formation of possible problems. For example, in case packets are queued
> >> above a certain threshold or for long periods of time. I hope we could
> >> re-use drop_monitor for this as well, thereby making it the go-to
> >> channel for diagnosing current and to-be problems in the data path.
> >>
> > Thats an interesting idea, but dropwatch certainly isn't currently setup for
> > that kind of messaging.  It may be worth creating a v2 of the netlink protocol
> > and really thinking out what you want to communicate.
> 
> Is not what you describe more or less what Ido has been doing here with
> this patch series?
possibly, I was only CCed on this thread halfway throught the conversation, and
only on the cover letter, I've not had a chance to look at the entire series

Neil

> -- 
> Florian
>