netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] habanalabs/gaudi: Add ethtool support using coresight

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Date:   Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:07:05 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, SW_Drivers@...ana.ai,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, Omer Shpigelman <oshpigelman@...ana.ai>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] habanalabs/gaudi: Add ethtool support using
 coresight

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:24:13 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > +static void gaudi_nic_get_internal_stats(struct net_device *netdev, u64 *data)
> > +{
> > +	struct gaudi_nic_device **ptr = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > +	struct gaudi_nic_device *gaudi_nic = *ptr;
> > +	struct hl_device *hdev = gaudi_nic->hdev;
> > +	u32 port = gaudi_nic->port;
> > +	u32 num_spmus;
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	num_spmus = (port & 1) ? NIC_SPMU1_STATS_LEN : NIC_SPMU0_STATS_LEN;
> > +
> > +	gaudi_sample_spmu_nic(hdev, port, num_spmus, data);
> > +	data += num_spmus;
> > +
> > +	/* first entry is title */
> > +	data[0] = 0;  
> 
> You have been looking at statistics names recently. What do you think
> of this data[0]?

Highly counter-productive, users will commonly grep for statistics.
Header which says "TX stats:" is a bad idea.