On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 03:58:00PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:

- now passes all ethtool_mm.sh kselftests (patch 8 required)

There's another problem with your patch set, leading to the
traffic_test() selftest passing with the "emac" and "pmac" argument when
it shouldn't.

Drivers which implement frame preemption are supposed to be prepared to
distinguish, in their ethtool get_eth_mac_stats() method, between
ETHTOOL_MAC_STATS_SRC_EMAC, ETHTOOL_MAC_STATS_SRC_PMAC and
ETHTOOL_MAC_STATS_SRC_AGGREGATE. You don't, so you report the same thing
everywhere, which is incorrect, and it also fools the selftest.

I would like you to figure out which source are your stats coming from,
reject everything else, and edit the selftest to do something sensible
for your hardware. If it's as I suspect and the reported counters are
eMAC+pMAC aggregates, then I guess the most sensible thing to do would
be to probe the device with an ethtool -S --src pmac at the beginning of
the test, see what it reports, and if we don't get pMAC counters from
it, fall back to aggregate ones during calls to traffic_test().