From: Karsten Graul <kgraul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 20:20:10 +0200 > Please apply the following patch series for smc to netdev's net-next tree. > > The patchset adds statistic support to the SMC protocol. Per-cpu > variables are used to collect the statistic information for better > performance and for reducing concurrency pitfalls. The code that is > collecting statistic data is implemented in macros to increase code > reuse and readability. > The generic netlink mechanism in SMC is extended to provide the > collected statistics to userspace. > Network namespace awareness is also part of the statistics > implementation. Why not use ethtool stats? Thank you.