netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/smc: Add SMC statistic support

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Date:   Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:33:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kgraul@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, hca@...ux.ibm.com, raspl@...ux.ibm.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/smc: Add SMC statistic support

From: Karsten Graul <kgraul@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Jun 2021 20:20:10 +0200

> Please apply the following patch series for smc to netdev's net-next tree.
> 
> The patchset adds statistic support to the SMC protocol. Per-cpu
> variables are used to collect the statistic information for better
> performance and for reducing concurrency pitfalls. The code that is
> collecting statistic data is implemented in macros to increase code
> reuse and readability.
> The generic netlink mechanism in SMC is extended to provide the
> collected statistics to userspace.
> Network namespace awareness is also part of the statistics
> implementation.

Why not use ethtool stats?

Thank you.