Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:36:05PM CET, k...@kernel.org wrote: >On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:21:52 +0200 Ido Schimmel wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 01:29:37PM +0200, Oleksandr Mazur wrote: >> > Add new trap action HARD_DROP, which can be used by the >> > drivers to register traps, where it's impossible to get >> > packet reported to the devlink subsystem by the device >> > driver, because it's impossible to retrieve dropped packet >> > from the device itself. >> > In order to use this action, driver must also register >> > additional devlink operation - callback that is used >> > to retrieve number of packets that have been dropped by >> > the device. >> >> Are these global statistics about number of packets the hardware dropped >> for a specific reason or are these per-port statistics? >> >> It's a creative use of devlink-trap interface, but I think it makes >> sense. Better to re-use an existing interface than creating yet another >> one. > >Not sure if I agree, if we can't trap why is it a trap? >It's just a counter.
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