Re: [PATCH net-next] net-sysfs: display two backlog queue len separately

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:28 AM Stephen Hemminger
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:55:37 +0800
Jason Xing [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:02 AM Simon Horman [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:17:56PM +0800, Jason Xing wrote:

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From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>

Sometimes we need to know which one of backlog queue can be exactly
long enough to cause some latency when debugging this part is needed.
Thus, we can then separate the display of both.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
---
 net/core/net-procfs.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-procfs.c b/net/core/net-procfs.c
index 1ec23bf8b05c..97a304e1957a 100644
--- a/net/core/net-procfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-procfs.c

@@ -115,10 +115,14 @@ static int dev_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
      return 0;
 }

-static u32 softnet_backlog_len(struct softnet_data *sd)
+static u32 softnet_input_pkt_queue_len(struct softnet_data *sd)
 {
-     return skb_queue_len_lockless(&sd->input_pkt_queue) +
-            skb_queue_len_lockless(&sd->process_queue);
+     return skb_queue_len_lockless(&sd->input_pkt_queue);
+}
+
+static u32 softnet_process_queue_len(struct softnet_data *sd)
+{
+     return skb_queue_len_lockless(&sd->process_queue);
 }

 static struct softnet_data *softnet_get_online(loff_t *pos)

@@ -169,12 +173,15 @@ static int softnet_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
       * mapping the data a specific CPU
       */
      seq_printf(seq,
-                "%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x\n",
+                "%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x "
+                "%08x %08x\n",
                 sd->processed, sd->dropped, sd->time_squeeze, 0,
                 0, 0, 0, 0, /* was fastroute */
                 0,   /* was cpu_collision */
                 sd->received_rps, flow_limit_count,
-                softnet_backlog_len(sd), (int)seq->index);
+                0,   /* was len of two backlog queues */
+                (int)seq->index,

nit: I think you could avoid this cast by using %llx as the format specifier.

I'm not sure if I should change this format since the above line is
introduced in commit 7d58e6555870d ('net-sysfs: add backlog len and
CPU id to softnet data').
The seq->index here manifests which cpu it uses, so it can be
displayed in 'int' format. Meanwhile, using %8x to output is much
cleaner if the user executes 'cat /proc/net/softnet_stat'.

What do you think about this?

Thanks,
Jason

I consider sofnet_data a legacy API (ie don't change).

Yeah, people seldomly touch this file in these years.

Why not add to real sysfs for network device with the one value per file?

Thanks for your advice. It's worth thinking about what kind of output
can replace the softnet_stat file because this file includes almost
everything which makes it more user-friendly. I'm a little bit
confused if we can use a fully new way to completely replace the
legacy file.

Do other maintainers have some precious opinion on this?

Thanks,
Jason