netdev - Re: [patch iproute2/net-next v5] tc: m_action: introduce support for hw stats type

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:08:29 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2/net-next v5] tc: m_action: introduce support
 for hw stats type

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:34:04 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/14/20 3:25 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > @@ -200,6 +208,29 @@ which indicates that action is expected to have minimal software data-path
> >  traffic and doesn't need to allocate stat counters with percpu allocator.
> >  This option is intended to be used by hardware-offloaded actions.
> >  
> > +.TP
> > +.BI hw_stats " HW_STATS"
> > +Speficies the type of HW stats of new action. If omitted, any stats counter type  
> 
> Fixed the spelling and applied to iproute2-next.

Just a heads up that the kernel uAPI is getting slightly renamed, you'll
need to do a s/HW_STATS_TYPE/HW_STATS/ the rename lands. Do you want me
to send a patch for that?