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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2020-09-15 03:11:52 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-09-15 23:26:28 +0300 |
| commit | 9a27a33027f22a716ce362be48d70ae0eb012ab7 (patch) | |
| tree | e4da475ac5ed89e6030694571c1cd825d91ce2d4 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 0f9ad4e7594419e906427bceba8e52467412895b (diff) | |
| download | linux-9a27a33027f22a716ce362be48d70ae0eb012ab7.tar.xz | |
ethtool: add standard pause stats
Currently drivers have to report their pause frames statistics
via ethtool -S, and there is a wide variety of names used for
these statistics.
Add the two statistics defined in IEEE 802.3x to the standard
API. Create a new ethtool request header flag for including
statistics in the response to GET commands.
Always create the ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STATS nest in replies when
flag is set. Testing if driver declares the op is not a reliable
way of checking if any stats will actually be included and therefore
we don't want to give the impression that presence of
ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STATS indicates driver support.
Note that this patch does not include PFC counters, which may fit
better in dcbnl? But mostly I don't need them/have a setup to test
them so I haven't looked deeply into exposing them :)
v3:
- add a helper for "uninitializing" stats, rather than a cryptic
memset() (Andrew)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index d53bcb31645a..2c8e0ddf548e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ the flags may not apply to requests. Recognized flags are: ================================= =================================== ``ETHTOOL_FLAG_COMPACT_BITSETS`` use compact format bitsets in reply ``ETHTOOL_FLAG_OMIT_REPLY`` omit optional reply (_SET and _ACT) + ``ETHTOOL_FLAG_STATS`` include optional device statistics ================================= =================================== New request flags should follow the general idea that if the flag is not set, @@ -989,8 +990,18 @@ Kernel response contents: ``ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_AUTONEG`` bool pause autonegotiation ``ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_RX`` bool receive pause frames ``ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_TX`` bool transmit pause frames + ``ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STATS`` nested pause statistics ===================================== ====== ========================== +``ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STATS`` are reported if ``ETHTOOL_FLAG_STATS`` was set +in ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS``. +It will be empty if driver did not report any statistics. Drivers fill in +the statistics in the following structure: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/ethtool.h + :identifiers: ethtool_pause_stats + +Each member has a corresponding attribute defined. PAUSE_SET ============ |