Re: [PATCH v6 net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show TX indirection table

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 15:24:23 EST


On 7/21/20 12:21 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:58:59 +0000 Chi Song wrote:
>> An imbalanced TX indirection table causes netvsc to have low
>> performance. This table is created and managed during runtime. To help
>> better diagnose performance issues caused by imbalanced tables, add
>> device attributes to show the content of TX indirection tables.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chi Song <chisong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sorry for waiting until v6 but sysfs feel like a very strange place to
> expose this. Especially under the netdev, not the bus device.
>
> This looks like device specific state, perhaps ethtool -d is a more
> appropriate place?

Agreed, or a devlink resource maybe?
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Florian