netdev - [net 11/11] Documentation: TLS: Add missing counter description

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Message-ID: <20191024193819.10389-12-saeedm@mellanox.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:39:02 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: [net 11/11] Documentation: TLS: Add missing counter description

From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>

Add TLS TX counter description for the packets that skip the resync
procedure and handled in the regular transmit flow, as they contain
no data.

Fixes: 46a3ea98074e ("net/mlx5e: kTLS, Enhance TX resync flow")
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
index 0dd3f748239f..87db87099607 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
@@ -436,6 +436,9 @@ by the driver:
    encryption.
  * ``tx_tls_ooo`` - number of TX packets which were part of a TLS stream
    but did not arrive in the expected order.
+ * ``tx_tls_skip_no_sync_data`` - number of TX packets which were part of
+   a TLS stream and arrived out-of-order, but skipped the HW offload routine
+   and went to the regular transmit flow as they contained no data.
  * ``tx_tls_drop_no_sync_data`` - number of TX packets which were part of
    a TLS stream dropped, because they arrived out of order and associated
    record could not be found.
-- 
2.21.0