> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:32:00 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > > > ack from my side if you have some use-cases in mind. > > > Some questions below: > > > - can we assume ethtool will be used to report stats just for 'global' > > > page_pool (not per-cpu page_pool)? > > > - can we assume netlink/yaml will be used to report per-cpu page_pool stats? > > > > > > I think in the current series we can fix the accounting part (in particular > > > avoiding memory wasting) and then we will figure out how to report percpu > > > page_pool stats through netlink/yaml. Agree? > > > > Deferring the export API to a separate series after this is merged is > > fine with me. > > +1 > > > In which case the *gathering* of statistics could also be > > deferred (it's not really useful if it can't be exported). > > What do you mean by "gather" here? If we plan to expose them later on > I reckon there's no point having this patch which actively optimizes > them away, no? IOW we should just drop this patch from v7? ack, I will get rid of it in v7. Regards, Lorenzo
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