Commit 8c498935 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 11066250
.. 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 {
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, ...)
{
::
my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...)
{
struct gnet_dump dump;
if (gnet_stats_start_copy(skb, TCA_STATS2, &mystruct->lock, &dump,
......@@ -45,23 +54,23 @@ my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...)
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, ...)
{
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.
......@@ -92,10 +101,11 @@ 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);
......@@ -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>
......@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Contents:
framerelay
generic-hdlc
generic_netlink
gen_stats
.. only:: subproject and html
......
......@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Jamal Hadi Salim
* Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
*
* See Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt
* See Documentation/networking/gen_stats.rst
*/
#include <linux/types.h>
......
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