netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sched: keep __gnet_stats_copy_xxx() same semantics for percpu stats

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Date:   Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:22:39 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sched: keep __gnet_stats_copy_xxx() same
 semantics for percpu stats

From: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:30:48 +0800

> __gnet_stats_copy_basic/queue() support both percpu stat and
> non-percpu stat, but they are handle in a different manner:
> 1. For percpu stat, percpu stats are added to the return value;
> 2. For non-percpu stat, non-percpu stats will overwrite the
>    return value;
> We should keep the same semantics for both type.
> 
> This patch makes percpu stats follow non-percpu's manner by
> reset the return bstats before add the percpu bstats to it.
> Also changes the caller in sch_mq.c/sch_mqprio.c to make sure
> they dump the right statistics for percpu qdisc.
> 
> One more thing, the sch->q.qlen is not set with nonlock child
> qdisc in mq_dump()/mqprio_dump(), add that.
> 
> Fixes: 22e0f8b9322c ("net: sched: make bstats per cpu and estimator RCU safe")
> Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>

You are changing way too many things at one time here.

Fix one bug in one patch, for example just fix the missed
initialization of the per-cpu stats.

The qlen fix is another patch.

And so on and so forth.

Thank you.