netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/10] net: add and use dev_get

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 19:58:11 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        osmocom-net-gprs@...ts.osmocom.org, wireguard@...ts.zx2c4.com,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/10] net: add and use dev_get_tstats64

On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 21:48:13 +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.
> 
> v2:
> - add patches for replacing ip_tunnel_get_stats64
>   Requested additional migrations will come in a separate series.
> 
> v3:
> - add atomic_long_t member rx_frame_errors in patch 3 for making
>   counter updates atomic

Applied, thank you!