Re: [PATCH net-next] eth: fbnic: Add PCIe hardware statistics

[Andrew Lunn]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 11:12:57AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:22:51PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 04:26:25PM -0800, Sanman Pradhan wrote:
> > > Add PCIe hardware statistics support to the fbnic driver. These stats
> > > provide insight into PCIe transaction performance and error conditions,
> > > including, read/write and completion TLP counts and DWORD counts and
> > > debug counters for tag, completion credit and NP credit exhaustion
> > > 
> > > The stats are exposed via ethtool and can be used to monitor PCIe
> > > performance and debug PCIe issues.
> > 
> > And how does PCIe statistics belong to ethtool?
> > 
> > This PCIe statistics to debug PCIe errors and arguably should be part of
> > PCI core and not hidden in netdev tool.
> 
> How would this be done in the PCI core?  As far as I can tell, all
> these registers are device-specific and live in some device BAR.

Is this a licences PCIe core?

Could the same statistics appear in other devices which licence the
same core? Maybe this needs pulling out into a helper? If this is
true, other uses of this core might not be networking hardware, so
ethtool -S would not be the best interfaces. Then they should appear
in debugfs?

	Andrew