Re: [RFC Patch net-next 3/5] net: dsa: microchip: add eth mac grouping for ethtool statistics

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 11:53:33AM +0000, Rakesh.Sankaranarayanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> Thanks for the review comment.
> 
> On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 20:02 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:59:00 +0530 Rakesh Sankaranarayanan wrote:
> > > +     mac_stats->FramesTransmittedOK = ctr[ksz9477_tx_mcast] +
> > > +                                      ctr[ksz9477_tx_bcast] +
> > > +                                      ctr[ksz9477_tx_ucast] +
> > > +                                      ctr[ksz9477_tx_pause];
> > 
> > do control frames count towards FramesTransmittedOK?
> > Please check the standard I don't recall.
> > 
> Yeah, I will check with the documentation.

Oleksij said that the hardware counts pause frames for the byte
counters, so at least for consistency, they should be counted in frame
counters too.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20221205052904.2834962-1-o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/