Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net-sysfs: expose number of carrier on/off changes

[Florian Fainelli]

Hi David,

2014-03-30 8:18 GMT-07:00 David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi all,
>
> As Eric mentioned, this is a per-link counter. I am not sure an
> aggregate stat would be as useful.
>
> As suggested by Florian, I'm planning to add a doc. As far as I can
> tell, I think it goes beyond just documenting this new counter: I
> believe sysfs-class-net needs to be added as a whole.

Right, I sort of started to do that here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/334888/
Once this gets accepted, I plan on documenting the other sysfs
attributes in statistics/ and queues/ in particular

>
> Stephen: I have a patch for iproute2, I was planning to send it after
> we're done with this one, unless you want it now. Also, should I
> document this IFLA thing, where would be best?
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 18:36 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:48:35 -0700
>>> David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> > This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link
>>> > flapping issues:
>>> >  - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes
>>> >  - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink)
>>> >
>>> > Tested:
>>> >   - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes
>>> >     + ip link set dev X down/up
>>> >     + plug/unplug cable
>>> >   - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES
>>> >   - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior
>>> >
>>> > Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Is there a related SNMP MIB variable? should there be?
>>
>> I don't think we have any SNMP MIB variable for devices ?
>>
>> It seems "ip link" is the facto standard.
>>
>> (BTW we put BusyPollRxPackets in TcpExt group, this was an error IMHO)
>>
>>



-- 
Florian
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