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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-28 01:01:41 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-04-29 00:39:46 +0300 |
commit | 8c498935585680284e5f3e5294d3c901b7c89d57 (patch) | |
tree | d9b870c61dfeb51a29bc2f6ee0673d1b61f15bd1 /Documentation | |
parent | 110662503de20f21ab22cf409753124d0977a339 (diff) | |
download | linux-8c498935585680284e5f3e5294d3c901b7c89d57.tar.xz |
docs: networking: convert gen_stats.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- mark lists as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/gen_stats.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt) | 98 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt b/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.rst index 179b18ce45ff..595a83b9a61b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.rst @@ -1,67 +1,76 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============================================== Generic networking statistics for netlink users -====================================================================== +=============================================== Statistic counters are grouped into structs: +==================== ===================== ===================== Struct TLV type Description ----------------------------------------------------------------------- +==================== ===================== ===================== gnet_stats_basic TCA_STATS_BASIC Basic statistics gnet_stats_rate_est TCA_STATS_RATE_EST Rate estimator gnet_stats_queue TCA_STATS_QUEUE Queue statistics none TCA_STATS_APP Application specific +==================== ===================== ===================== Collecting: ----------- -Declare the statistic structs you need: -struct mystruct { - struct gnet_stats_basic bstats; - struct gnet_stats_queue qstats; - ... -}; +Declare the statistic structs you need:: + + struct mystruct { + struct gnet_stats_basic bstats; + struct gnet_stats_queue qstats; + ... + }; + +Update statistics, in dequeue() methods only, (while owning qdisc->running):: -Update statistics, in dequeue() methods only, (while owning qdisc->running) -mystruct->tstats.packet++; -mystruct->qstats.backlog += skb->pkt_len; + mystruct->tstats.packet++; + mystruct->qstats.backlog += skb->pkt_len; Export to userspace (Dump): --------------------------- -my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...) -{ - struct gnet_dump dump; +:: - if (gnet_stats_start_copy(skb, TCA_STATS2, &mystruct->lock, &dump, - TCA_PAD) < 0) - goto rtattr_failure; + my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...) + { + struct gnet_dump dump; - if (gnet_stats_copy_basic(&dump, &mystruct->bstats) < 0 || - gnet_stats_copy_queue(&dump, &mystruct->qstats) < 0 || - gnet_stats_copy_app(&dump, &xstats, sizeof(xstats)) < 0) - goto rtattr_failure; + if (gnet_stats_start_copy(skb, TCA_STATS2, &mystruct->lock, &dump, + TCA_PAD) < 0) + goto rtattr_failure; - if (gnet_stats_finish_copy(&dump) < 0) - goto rtattr_failure; - ... -} + if (gnet_stats_copy_basic(&dump, &mystruct->bstats) < 0 || + gnet_stats_copy_queue(&dump, &mystruct->qstats) < 0 || + gnet_stats_copy_app(&dump, &xstats, sizeof(xstats)) < 0) + goto rtattr_failure; + + if (gnet_stats_finish_copy(&dump) < 0) + goto rtattr_failure; + ... + } TCA_STATS/TCA_XSTATS backward compatibility: -------------------------------------------- Prior users of struct tc_stats and xstats can maintain backward compatibility by calling the compat wrappers to keep providing the -existing TLV types. +existing TLV types:: -my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...) -{ - if (gnet_stats_start_copy_compat(skb, TCA_STATS2, TCA_STATS, - TCA_XSTATS, &mystruct->lock, &dump, - TCA_PAD) < 0) - goto rtattr_failure; - ... -} + my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...) + { + if (gnet_stats_start_copy_compat(skb, TCA_STATS2, TCA_STATS, + TCA_XSTATS, &mystruct->lock, &dump, + TCA_PAD) < 0) + goto rtattr_failure; + ... + } A struct tc_stats will be filled out during gnet_stats_copy_* calls and appended to the skb. TCA_XSTATS is provided if gnet_stats_copy_app @@ -77,7 +86,7 @@ are responsible for making sure that the lock is initialized. Rate Estimator: --------------- +--------------- 0) Prepare an estimator attribute. Most likely this would be in user space. The value of this TLV should contain a tc_estimator structure. @@ -92,18 +101,19 @@ Rate Estimator: TCA_RATE to your code in the kernel. In the kernel when setting up: + 1) make sure you have basic stats and rate stats setup first. 2) make sure you have initialized stats lock that is used to setup such stats. -3) Now initialize a new estimator: +3) Now initialize a new estimator:: - int ret = gen_new_estimator(my_basicstats,my_rate_est_stats, - mystats_lock, attr_with_tcestimator_struct); + int ret = gen_new_estimator(my_basicstats,my_rate_est_stats, + mystats_lock, attr_with_tcestimator_struct); - if ret == 0 - success - else - failed + if ret == 0 + success + else + failed From now on, every time you dump my_rate_est_stats it will contain up-to-date info. @@ -115,5 +125,5 @@ are still valid (i.e still exist) at the time of making this call. Authors: -------- -Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> -Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> +- Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> +- Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 42e556509e22..33afbb67f3fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Contents: framerelay generic-hdlc generic_netlink + gen_stats .. only:: subproject and html |