Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: add and use function dev_fetch_sw_netstats for fetching pcpu_sw_netstats

On 12.10.2020 00:10, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 21:34:58 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote:

quoted

In several places the same code is used to populate rtnl_link_stats64
fields with data from pcpu_sw_netstats. Therefore factor out this code
to a new function dev_fetch_sw_netstats().

FWIW probably fine to convert nfp_repr_get_host_stats64() as well, just
take out the drop counter and make it a separate atomic. If you're up
for that.

Looking at nfp_repr_get_host_stats64() I'm not sure why the authors
decided to add a 64bit tx drop counter, struct net_device_stats has
an unsigned long tx_dropped counter already. And that the number of
dropped tx packets exceeds 32bit (on 32bit systems) seems not very
likely.