netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v12 5/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: rmon: Use RMU for reading RMON data

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Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:11:10 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Mattias Forsblad <mattias.forsblad@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        ansuelsmth@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 5/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: rmon: Use RMU for
 reading RMON data

On 9/15/22 07:36, Mattias Forsblad wrote:
> Use the Remote Management Unit for efficiently accessing
> the RMON data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mattias Forsblad <mattias.forsblad@...il.com>

Seems a bit wasteful to add a rmu_reg field for each statistics member 
when there are only 6 STATS_TYPE_PORT that could be read over RMU.

Maybe what you could do is that the offset in the "reg" member could be 
split into a lower half that is used to encore the existing offset, and 
you use the upper half to encode the RMU-offset.
-- 
Florian