Re: [RFC v3 net-next] net: core: devlink: add 'dropped' stats field for DROP trap action

[Oleksandr Mazur]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:15:43 +0000 Oleksandr Mazur wrote:
> > >Thinking about it again - if the action can be changed wouldn't it 
> > >be best for the user to actually get a "HW condition hit" counter,
> >> which would increment regardless of SW config (incl. policers)?  
> >
> > >Otherwise if admin logs onto the box and temporarily enables a trap 
> >> for debug this count would disappear.  
>> 
>> But still this counter makes sense only for 'drop' action.

>Okay, well, "dropped while trap was disabled" seems a lot less useful
>of a definition than "number of times this trap would trigger" but if
>that's all the HW can provide then it is what it is.

>Does the HW also count packets dropped because of overload / overflow
>or some other event, or purely dropped because disabled?

Hw starts counting traffic (hw drops) only when action has been explicitly set to be 'DROP';