netdev - Re: multipath tcp MIB counter placement

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:27:47 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: multipath tcp MIB counter placement - share with tcp or extra?



On 8/28/19 1:43 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> The out-of-tree multipath TCP stack adds a few MIB counters to track
> (and debug) MTPCP behaviour.  Examples:
> 
>         SNMP_MIB_ITEM("MPCapableSYNRX", MPTCP_MIB_MPCAPABLEPASSIVE),
>         SNMP_MIB_ITEM("MPCapableSYNTX", MPTCP_MIB_MPCAPABLEACTIVE),
> [..]
>         SNMP_MIB_ITEM("MPTCPRetrans", MPTCP_MIB_RETRANSSEGS),
>         SNMP_MIB_ITEM("MPFailRX", MPTCP_MIB_MPFAILRX),
>         SNMP_MIB_ITEM("MPCsumFail", MPTCP_MIB_CSUMFAIL),
> 
> and so on.
> 
> I think that such MIB counters would be good to have in the 'upstreaming'
> attempt as well.
> 
> The out-of-tree code keeps them separate from the tcp mib counters and also
> exposes them in a different /proc file (/proc/net/mptcp_net/snmp).
> 
> Would you be ok with mptcp-upstreaming adding its MIB counters to the
> existing TCP MIB instead?
> 
> This would make 'nstat' and other tools pick them up automatically.
> It would also help TCP highlevel debugging to see if MPTCP is involved
> in any way.
> 
> Let me know -- I can go with a separate MIB, its no problem, I just want
> to avoid going down the wrong path.

There are about 40 counters.

Space for that will be per netns : num_possible_cpus * 40 * 8  bytes

The cost of folding all the values will make nstat slower even if MPTCP is not used.

Maybe find a way to not having to fold the MPTCP percpu counters if MPTCP is not loaded ?