This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5e: Get the latest values from counters in switchdev mode
to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5e-get-the-latest-values-from-counters-in-switchdev-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dcdf4ce0ff4ba206fc362e149c8ae81d6a2f849c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 14:51:52 +0800
Subject: net/mlx5e: Get the latest values from counters in switchdev mode
From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit dcdf4ce0ff4ba206fc362e149c8ae81d6a2f849c upstream.
In the switchdev mode, when running "cat
/sys/class/net/NIC/statistics/tx_packets", the ppcnt register is
accessed to get the latest values. But currently this command can
not get the correct values from ppcnt.
>From firmware manual, before getting the 802_3 counters, the 802_3
data layout should be set to the ppcnt register.
When the command "cat /sys/class/net/NIC/statistics/tx_packets" is
run, before updating 802_3 data layout with ppcnt register, the
monitor counters are tested. The test result will decide the
802_3 data layout is updated or not.
Actually the monitor counters do not support to monitor rx/tx
stats of 802_3 in switchdev mode. So the rx/tx counters change
will not trigger monitor counters. So the 802_3 data layout will
not be updated in ppcnt register. Finally this command can not get
the latest values from ppcnt register with 802_3 data layout.
Fixes: 5c7e8bbb0257 ("net/mlx5e: Use monitor counters for update stats")
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -3568,7 +3568,12 @@ mlx5e_get_stats(struct net_device *dev,
struct mlx5e_vport_stats *vstats = &priv->stats.vport;
struct mlx5e_pport_stats *pstats = &priv->stats.pport;
- if (!mlx5e_monitor_counter_supported(priv)) {
+ /* In switchdev mode, monitor counters doesn't monitor
+ * rx/tx stats of 802_3. The update stats mechanism
+ * should keep the 802_3 layout counters updated
+ */
+ if (!mlx5e_monitor_counter_supported(priv) ||
+ mlx5e_is_uplink_rep(priv)) {
/* update HW stats in background for next time */
mlx5e_queue_update_stats(priv);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yanjunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.6/net-mlx5e-get-the-latest-values-from-counters-in-switchdev-mode.patch
