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author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2021-04-16 22:27:38 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-04-17 02:59:20 +0300 |
commit | ddc78b3621242dd691ef4c234a80e316422c2876 (patch) | |
tree | 2c26000ec6b512a93b8839c9f2f4d070cf5dd890 /Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | |
parent | f117c48c0dc88a50dc2f761fd3df25bd6f9b6c6f (diff) | |
download | linux-ddc78b3621242dd691ef4c234a80e316422c2876.tar.xz |
docs: ethtool: document standard statistics
Add documentation for ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index f8219e2f489e..48cad2fce147 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_TUNNEL_INFO_GET`` get tunnel offload info ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_GET`` get FEC settings ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_SET`` set FEC settings + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET`` get standard statistics ===================================== ================================ Kernel to userspace: @@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_TUNNEL_INFO_GET_REPLY`` tunnel offload info ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_GET_REPLY`` FEC settings ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_NTF`` FEC settings + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET_REPLY`` standard statistics ===================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -1391,6 +1393,86 @@ Kernel response contents: ``ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_DATA`` has an attribute length equal to the amount of bytes driver actually read. +STATS_GET +========= + +Get standard statistics for the interface. Note that this is not +a re-implementation of ``ETHTOOL_GSTATS`` which exposed driver-defined +stats. + +Request contents: + + ======================================= ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_HEADER`` nested request header + ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GROUPS`` bitset requested groups of stats + ======================================= ====== ========================== + +Kernel response contents: + + +-----------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_HEADER`` | nested | reply header | + +-----------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP`` | nested | one or more group of stats | + +-+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_ID`` | u32 | group ID - ``ETHTOOL_STATS_*`` | + +-+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_SS_ID`` | u32 | string set ID for names | + +-+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_STAT`` | nested | nest containing a statistic | + +-+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_HIST_RX`` | nested | histogram statistic (Rx) | + +-+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + | | ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_HIST_TX`` | nested | histogram statistic (Tx) | + +-+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ + +Users specify which groups of statistics they are requesting via +the ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GROUPS`` bitset. Currently defined values are: + + ====================== ======== =============================================== + ETHTOOL_STATS_ETH_MAC eth-mac Basic IEEE 802.3 MAC statistics (30.3.1.1.*) + ETHTOOL_STATS_ETH_PHY eth-phy Basic IEEE 802.3 PHY statistics (30.3.2.1.*) + ETHTOOL_STATS_ETH_CTRL eth-ctrl Basic IEEE 802.3 MAC Ctrl statistics (30.3.3.*) + ETHTOOL_STATS_RMON rmon RMON (RFC 2819) statistics + ====================== ======== =============================================== + +Each group should have a corresponding ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP`` in the reply. +``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_ID`` identifies which group's statistics nest contains. +``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_SS_ID`` identifies the string set ID for the names of +the statistics in the group, if available. + +Statistics are added to the ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP`` nest under +``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_STAT``. ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_STAT`` should contain +single 8 byte (u64) attribute inside - the type of that attribute is +the statistic ID and the value is the value of the statistic. +Each group has its own interpretation of statistic IDs. +Attribute IDs correspond to strings from the string set identified +by ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_SS_ID``. Complex statistics (such as RMON histogram +entries) are also listed inside ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP`` and do not have +a string defined in the string set. + +RMON "histogram" counters count number of packets within given size range. +Because RFC does not specify the ranges beyond the standard 1518 MTU devices +differ in definition of buckets. For this reason the definition of packet ranges +is left to each driver. + +``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_HIST_RX`` and ``ETHTOOL_A_STATS_GRP_HIST_TX`` nests +contain the following attributes: + + ================================= ====== =================================== + ETHTOOL_A_STATS_RMON_HIST_BKT_LOW u32 low bound of the packet size bucket + ETHTOOL_A_STATS_RMON_HIST_BKT_HI u32 high bound of the bucket + ETHTOOL_A_STATS_RMON_HIST_VAL u64 packet counter + ================================= ====== =================================== + +Low and high bounds are inclusive, for example: + + ============================= ==== ==== + RFC statistic low high + ============================= ==== ==== + etherStatsPkts64Octets 0 64 + etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets 512 1023 + ============================= ==== ==== + Request translation =================== |