netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add per-cpu storage and net->core

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Date:   Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:43:41 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        jeffreyji <jeffreyji@...gle.com>,
        Brian Vazquez <brianvv@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add per-cpu storage and net->core_stats

On Wed,  9 Mar 2022 13:18:08 -0800 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Before adding yet another possibly contended atomic_long_t,
> it is time to add per-cpu storage for existing ones:
>  dev->tx_dropped, dev->rx_dropped, and dev->rx_nohandler
> 
> Because many devices do not have to increment such counters,
> allocate the per-cpu storage on demand, so that dev_get_stats()
> does not have to spend considerable time folding zero counters.
> 
> Note that some drivers have abused these counters which
> were supposed to be only used by core networking stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: jeffreyji <jeffreyji@...gle.com>
> Cc: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Things to mention in passing, in case there is a v2:
 - we could use a different header for this, netdevice.h is a monster
 - netdev_core_stats_alloc() could have the last if inverted to keep
   success path unindented