Re: [PATCH V2 4/4] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Expose per-channel event counters events counters

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 09:59:27 EST


On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 08:54:19PM -0700, kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When investigating performance, it is useful to be able to look at
> the number of host and guest events per-channel. This is equivalent
> to per-device interrupt statistics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-vmbus | 14 ++++++++++++++
> drivers/hv/connection.c | 2 ++
> drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/hyperv.h | 4 ++++
> 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+)

How is this a fix and not just a new feature?