netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 11/15] net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Add no-split ethtool counters for header/data split

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Message-ID: <20240529182208.401b1ecf@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:22:08 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Gal Pressman
 <gal@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>, Dragos Tatulea
 <dtatulea@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/15] net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Add no-split ethtool
 counters for header/data split

On Tue, 28 May 2024 17:28:03 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote:
> +   * - `rx[i]_hds_nosplit_packets`
> +     - Number of packets that were not split in modes that do header/data split
> +       [#accel]_.
> +     - Informative
> +
> +   * - `rx[i]_hds_nosplit_bytes`
> +     - Number of bytes that were not split in modes that do header/data split
> +       [#accel]_.
> +     - Informative

This is too vague. The ethtool HDS feature is for TCP only.
What does this count? Non-TCP packets basically?

Given this is a HW-GRO series, are HDS packets == HW-GRO eligible
packets?