On 04/27/2016 06:18 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Hi,
> This set adds support for bridge per-vlan statistics.
> In order to be able to dump statistics we need a way to continue
> dumping after reaching maximum size, thus patches 01-03 extend the new
> stats API with a per-device extended link stats attribute and callback
> which can save its local state and continue where it left off afterwards.
> I considered using the already existing "fill_xstats" callback but it gets
> confusing since we need to separate the linkinfo dump from the new stats
> api dump and adding a flag/argument to do that just looks messy. I don't
> think the rtnl_link_ops size is an issue, so adding these seemed like the
> cleaner approach.
> 
> Patch 05 converts the pvid to a pointer so we can consolidate the vlan
> stats accounting paths later, also allows to simplify the pvid code.
> Patches 06 and 07 add the stats support and netlink dump support
> respectively.
> I've tested this set with both old and modified iproute2, kmemleak on and
> some traffic stress tests while adding/removing vlans and ports.
> 
> Thank you,
>  Nik
> 
> Note: Jamal I haven't forgotten about the per-port per-vlan stats, I've got
> a follow-up patch that adds it. You can easily see that the infrastructure
> for private port/vlan stats is in place after this set. Though the stats
> api will need some more changes to support that.
> 
> 
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Self-NAK
I'll post a v2 after a couple of days, I'd like to make some minor changes and 
also
address the feedback in the process.

Thanks,
 Nik


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