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Re: [PATCH 1/3] ethtool: Support ETHTOOL_GSTATS2 command.

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On 04/17/2018 06:49 PM, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is similar to ETHTOOL_GSTATS, but it allows you to specify
> flags.  These flags can be used by the driver to decrease the
> amount of stats refreshed.  In particular, this helps with ath10k
> since getting the firmware stats can be slow.

You can configure the statistics refresh rate through the ethtool
coalescing parameter stats_block_coalesce_usecs, not sure if this is
exactly what you had in mind, but if it works, then you might as well
want to use it.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/ethtool.h      | 12 ++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  net/core/ethtool.c           | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h
> index ebe4181..a4aa11f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -243,6 +243,15 @@ bool ethtool_convert_link_mode_to_legacy_u32(u32 *legacy_u32,
>   * @get_ethtool_stats: Return extended statistics about the device.
>   *	This is only useful if the device maintains statistics not
>   *	included in &struct rtnl_link_stats64.
> + * @get_ethtool_stats2: Return extended statistics about the device.
> + *	This is only useful if the device maintains statistics not
> + *	included in &struct rtnl_link_stats64.
> + *      Takes a flags argument:  0 means all (same as get_ethtool_stats),
> + *      0x1 (ETHTOOL_GS2_SKIP_FW) means skip firmware stats.
> + *      Other flags are reserved for now.
> + *      Same number of stats will be returned, but some of them might
> + *      not be as accurate/refreshed.  This is to allow not querying
> + *      firmware or other expensive-to-read stats, for instance.
>   * @begin: Function to be called before any other operation.  Returns a
>   *	negative error code or zero.
>   * @complete: Function to be called after any other operation except
> @@ -355,6 +364,9 @@ struct ethtool_ops {
>  	int	(*set_phys_id)(struct net_device *, enum ethtool_phys_id_state);
>  	void	(*get_ethtool_stats)(struct net_device *,
>  				     struct ethtool_stats *, u64 *);
> +	void	(*get_ethtool_stats2)(struct net_device *dev,
> +				      struct ethtool_stats *gstats, u64 *data,
> +				      u32 flags);
>  	int	(*begin)(struct net_device *);
>  	void	(*complete)(struct net_device *);
>  	u32	(*get_priv_flags)(struct net_device *);
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> index 4ca65b5..1c74f3e 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -1396,11 +1396,21 @@ enum ethtool_fec_config_bits {
>  #define ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE	0x0000004f /* Set PHY tunable configuration */
>  #define ETHTOOL_GFECPARAM	0x00000050 /* Get FEC settings */
>  #define ETHTOOL_SFECPARAM	0x00000051 /* Set FEC settings */
> +#define ETHTOOL_GSTATS2		0x00000052 /* get NIC-specific statistics
> +					    * with ability to specify flags.
> +					    * See ETHTOOL_GS2* below.
> +					    */
>  
>  /* compatibility with older code */
>  #define SPARC_ETH_GSET		ETHTOOL_GSET
>  #define SPARC_ETH_SSET		ETHTOOL_SSET
>  
> +/* GSTATS2 flags */
> +#define ETHTOOL_GS2_SKIP_NONE (0)    /* default is to update all stats */
> +#define ETHTOOL_GS2_SKIP_FW   (1<<0) /* Skip reading stats that probe firmware,
> +				      * and thus are slow/expensive.
> +				      */
> +
>  /* Link mode bit indices */
>  enum ethtool_link_mode_bit_indices {
>  	ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_10baseT_Half_BIT	= 0,
> diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
> index 03416e6..6ec3413 100644
> --- a/net/core/ethtool.c
> +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
> @@ -1952,16 +1952,14 @@ static int ethtool_phys_id(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  
> -static int ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
> +static int _ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr,
> +			      u32 flags)
>  {
>  	struct ethtool_stats stats;
>  	const struct ethtool_ops *ops = dev->ethtool_ops;
>  	u64 *data;
>  	int ret, n_stats;
>  
> -	if (!ops->get_ethtool_stats || !ops->get_sset_count)
> -		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -
>  	n_stats = ops->get_sset_count(dev, ETH_SS_STATS);
>  	if (n_stats < 0)
>  		return n_stats;
> @@ -1976,7 +1974,10 @@ static int ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
>  	if (n_stats && !data)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	ops->get_ethtool_stats(dev, &stats, data);
> +	if (flags != ETHTOOL_GS2_SKIP_NONE)
> +		ops->get_ethtool_stats2(dev, &stats, data, flags);
> +	else
> +		ops->get_ethtool_stats(dev, &stats, data);
>  
>  	ret = -EFAULT;
>  	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &stats, sizeof(stats)))
> @@ -1991,6 +1992,31 @@ static int ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static int ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
> +{
> +	const struct ethtool_ops *ops = dev->ethtool_ops;
> +
> +	if (!ops->get_ethtool_stats || !ops->get_sset_count)
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +	return _ethtool_get_stats(dev, useraddr, ETHTOOL_GS2_SKIP_NONE);
> +}
> +
> +static int ethtool_get_stats2(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
> +{
> +	struct ethtool_stats stats;
> +	const struct ethtool_ops *ops = dev->ethtool_ops;
> +	u32 flags = 0;
> +
> +	if (!ops->get_ethtool_stats2 || !ops->get_sset_count)
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> +	if (copy_from_user(&stats, useraddr, sizeof(stats)))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	flags = stats.n_stats;
> +	return _ethtool_get_stats(dev, useraddr, flags);
> +}
> +
>  static int ethtool_get_phy_stats(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
>  {
>  	struct ethtool_stats stats;
> @@ -2632,6 +2658,7 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
>  	case ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO:
>  	case ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS:
>  	case ETHTOOL_GSTATS:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GSTATS2:
>  	case ETHTOOL_GPHYSTATS:
>  	case ETHTOOL_GTSO:
>  	case ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR:
> @@ -2742,6 +2769,9 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
>  	case ETHTOOL_GSTATS:
>  		rc = ethtool_get_stats(dev, useraddr);
>  		break;
> +	case ETHTOOL_GSTATS2:
> +		rc = ethtool_get_stats2(dev, useraddr);
> +		break;
>  	case ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR:
>  		rc = ethtool_get_perm_addr(dev, useraddr);
>  		break;
> 


-- 
Florian



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