netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/2] net: stmmac: improve driver statistics

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:01:48 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>, Alexandre Torgue
 <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>, Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>, "David S
 . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
 Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
 Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/2] net: stmmac: improve driver statistics

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:06:28 +0800 Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> improve the stmmac driver statistics:
> 
> 1. don't clear network driver statistics in .ndo_close() and
> .ndo_open() cycle
> 2. avoid some network driver statistics overflow on 32 bit platforms
> 3. use per-queue statistics where necessary to remove frequent
> cacheline ping pongs.
> 
> NOTE: v1 and v2 are back ported from an internal LTS tree, I made
> some mistakes when backporting and squashing. Now, net-next + v3
> has been well tested with 'ethtool -s' and 'ip -s link show'.

Giuseppe, please take a look.