netdev - Re: [PATCH net 3/4] bnxt_en: Fix statistics counters issue during ifdown with older firmware.

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:47:36 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/4] bnxt_en: Fix statistics counters issue during
 ifdown with older firmware.

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:01:37 -0400 Michael Chan wrote:
> On older firmware, the hardware statistics are not cleared when the
> driver frees the hardware stats contexts during ifdown.  The driver
> expects these stats to be cleared and saves a copy before freeing
> the stats contexts.  During the next ifup, the driver will likely
> allocate the same hardware stats contexts and this will cause a big
> increase in the counters as the old counters are added back to the
> saved counters.
> 
> We fix it by making an additional firmware call to clear the counters
> before freeing the hw stats contexts when the firmware is the older
> 20.x firmware.
> 
> Fixes: b8875ca356f1 ("bnxt_en: Save ring statistics before reset.")
> Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kicinski@...com>
> Reviewed-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>

Tested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kicinski@...com>

Thanks Michael!