Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] octeontx2-af: Add devlink health reporters for NIX

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 13:36:56 +0000 George Cherian wrote:
> > Now i am a little bit skeptic here, devlink health reporter infrastructure was
> > never meant to deal with dump op only, the main purpose is to
> > diagnose/dump and recover.
> > 
> > especially in your use case where you only report counters, i don't believe
> > devlink health dump is a proper interface for this.  
> These are not counters. These are error interrupts raised by HW blocks.
> The count is provided to understand on how frequently the errors are seen.
> Error recovery for some of the blocks happen internally. That is the reason,
> Currently only dump op is added.

The previous incarnation was printing messages to logs, so I assume
these errors are expected to be relatively low rate.

The point of using devlink health was that you can generate a netlink
notification when the error happens. IOW you need some calls to
devlink_health_report() or such.

At least that's my thinking, others may disagree.