netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: add and use dev_get

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Date:   Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:05:27 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: add and use dev_get_tstats64

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 15:46:27 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 02.11.2020 23:36, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 13:33 +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:  
> >> It's a frequent pattern to use netdev->stats for the less frequently
> >> accessed counters and per-cpu counters for the frequently accessed
> >> counters (rx/tx bytes/packets). Add a default ndo_get_stats64()
> >> implementation for this use case. Subsequently switch more drivers
> >> to use this pattern.
> >>
> >> Heiner Kallweit (5):
> >>   net: core: add dev_get_tstats64 as a ndo_get_stats64 implementation
> >>   net: make ip_tunnel_get_stats64 an alias for dev_get_tstats64
> >>   ip6_tunnel: use ip_tunnel_get_stats64 as ndo_get_stats64 callback
> >>   net: dsa: use net core stats64 handling
> >>   tun: switch to net core provided statistics counters
> >>  
> > 
> > not many left,
> > 
> > $ git grep dev_fetch_sw_netstats drivers/
> > 
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/ipoib_main.c:        dev_fetch_sw_netstats(s
> > torage, priv->netstats);
> > drivers/net/macsec.c:   dev_fetch_sw_netstats(s, dev->tstats);
> > drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c:     dev_fetch_sw_netstats(stats, priv-  
> >> stats64);  
> > drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:       dev_fetch_sw_netstats(stats, dev-  
> >> stats64);  
> > drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c:  dev_fetch_sw_netstats(s
> > tats, vif->stats64);
> > 
> > Why not convert them as well ?
> > macsec has a different implementation, but all others can be converted.
> >   
> OK, I can do this. Then the series becomes somewhat bigger.
> @Jakub: Would it be ok to apply the current series and I provide the
> additionally requested migrations as follow-up series?

Fine by me.