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Message-ID: <aeac0d23-26e3-4415-9a77-f649d3d48536@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:03:11 -0800
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
kuba@...nel.org
Cc: andrew@...n.ch, olteanv@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 6/8] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Limit histogram
counters to ingress traffic
On 12/11/23 14:33, Tobias Waldekranz wrote:
> Chips in this family only has one set of histogram counters, which can
> be used to count ingressing and/or egressing traffic. mv88e6xxx has,
> up until this point, kept the hardware default of counting both
> directions.
s/has/have/
>
> In the mean time, standard counter group support has been added to
> ethtool. Via that interface, drivers may report ingress-only and
> egress-only histograms separately - but not combined.
>
> In order for mv88e6xxx to maximalize amount of diagnostic information
> that can be exported via standard interfaces, we opt to limit the
> histogram counters to ingress traffic only. Which will allow us to
> export them via the standard "rmon" group in an upcoming commit.
s/maximalize/maximize/
>
> The reason for choosing ingress-only over egress-only, is to be
> compatible with RFC2819 (RMON MIB).
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>
Out of curiosity: does this commit and the next one need to be swapped
in order to surprises if someone happened to be bisecting across this
patch series?
Unless there is something else that needs to be addressed, please
address the two typos above, regardless:
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
--
Florian
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