[PATCH net-next] Documentation: update networking/page_pool.rst with ethtool APIs

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Update page_pool documentation with page_pool ethtool stats APIs.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
index 5db8c263b0c6..ef5e18cf7cdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
@@ -146,6 +146,29 @@ The ``struct page_pool_recycle_stats`` has the following fields:
   * ``ring_full``: page released from page pool because the ptr ring was full
   * ``released_refcnt``: page released (and not recycled) because refcnt > 1
 
+The following APIs can be used to report page_pool stats through ethtool and
+avoid code duplication in each driver:
+
+* page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_strings(): reports page_pool ethtool stats
+  strings according to the ``struct page_pool_stats``
+     * ``rx_pp_alloc_fast``
+     * ``rx_pp_alloc_slow``
+     * ``rx_pp_alloc_slow_ho``
+     * ``rx_pp_alloc_empty``
+     * ``rx_pp_alloc_refill``
+     * ``rx_pp_alloc_waive``
+     * ``rx_pp_recycle_cached``
+     * ``rx_pp_recycle_cache_full``
+     * ``rx_pp_recycle_ring``
+     * ``rx_pp_recycle_ring_full``
+     * ``rx_pp_recycle_released_ref``
+
+* page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_count(): reports the number of stats defined in
+  the ethtool page_pool APIs
+
+* page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 \*data, void \*stats): reports the page_pool statistics accounted in
+  the ``stats`` pointer in the ethtool ``data`` pointer provided by the caller
+
 Coding examples
 ===============
 
-- 
2.35.3




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