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

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Message-ID: <6681fcbd-938a-0028-1e09-0290d63d55fe@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Dec 2019 19:17:05 +0800
From:   Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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


On 12/1/19 4:22 AM, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

OK, I will separate them. Thanks for review !


Thanks.

Dust Li