Hi David, 2014-03-30 8:18 GMT-07:00 David Decotigny <de...@googlers.com>: > Hi all, > > As Eric mentioned, this is a per-link counter. I am not sure an > aggregate stat would be as useful. > > As suggested by Florian, I'm planning to add a doc. As far as I can > tell, I think it goes beyond just documenting this new counter: I > believe sysfs-class-net needs to be added as a whole.
Right, I sort of started to do that here: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/334888/ Once this gets accepted, I plan on documenting the other sysfs attributes in statistics/ and queues/ in particular > > Stephen: I have a patch for iproute2, I was planning to send it after > we're done with this one, unless you want it now. Also, should I > document this IFLA thing, where would be best? > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 18:36 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:48:35 -0700 >>> David Decotigny <de...@googlers.com> wrote: >>> >>> > This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link >>> > flapping issues: >>> > - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes >>> > - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink) >>> > >>> > Tested: >>> > - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes >>> > + ip link set dev X down/up >>> > + plug/unplug cable >>> > - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES >>> > - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior >>> > >>> > Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <de...@googlers.com> >>> >>> Is there a related SNMP MIB variable? should there be? >> >> I don't think we have any SNMP MIB variable for devices ? >> >> It seems "ip link" is the facto standard. >> >> (BTW we put BusyPollRxPackets in TcpExt group, this was an error IMHO) >> >> -- Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
