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

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Message-ID: <4e960372-2a5e-5a38-b2ae-843957f0cd67@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:12:07 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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 3/20/20 2:08 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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?
> 

sure