netdev - Re: [PATCH net] eth: bnxt: fix counting packets discarded due to OOM and netpoll

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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:58:08 -0700
From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, edwin.peer@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] eth: bnxt: fix counting packets discarded due to OOM
 and netpoll

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 5:21 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> I added OOM and netpoll discard counters, naively assuming that
> the cpr pointer is pointing to a common completion ring.
> Turns out that is usually *a* completion ring but not *the*
> completion ring which bnapi->cp_ring points to. bnapi->cp_ring
> is where the stats are read from, so we end up reporting 0
> thru ethtool -S and qstat even though the drop events have happened.
> Make 100% sure we're recording statistics in the correct structure.
>
> Fixes: 907fd4a294db ("bnxt: count discards due to memory allocation errors")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Yes, on the newer chips, we have 2 cpr pointers and the correct one
must be used for the sw_stats.  We actually have a patch that changes
cpr->sw_stats to a pointer so that both cpr can share the same
sw_stats structure.  This reminds me to post that patch soon to avoid
this type of confusion in the future.  Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>