Re: [PATCH net-next v5 13/14] libie: add per-queue Page Pool stats

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Dec 01 2023 - 01:55:30 EST


On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:45:10 +0100 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > Meh, this way the stats won't survive ifdown/ifup cycles as usually
> > page_pools get destroyed on ifdown :z
> > In that patch, I backup the PP stats to a device-lifetime container when
> > the pool gets destroyed, maybe we could do something similar?
>
> I still can pull the PP stats to the driver before destroying it, but
> there's no way to tell the PP I have some archived stats for it. Maybe
> we could have page_pool_params_slow::get_stats() or smth like this?

Why do you think the historic values matter?
User space monitoring will care about incremental values.
It's not like for page pool we need to match the Rx packet count.