Re: [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] tun: switch to net core provided statistics counters

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 06.11.2020 08:48, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 06.11.2020 02:14, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:25:24 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>> @@ -1066,7 +1054,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>>  	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>>>  
>>>  drop:
>>> -	this_cpu_inc(tun->pcpu_stats->tx_dropped);
>>> +	dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>>>  	skb_tx_error(skb);
>>>  	kfree_skb(skb);
>>>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>>
>> This is no longer atomic. Multiple CPUs may try to update it at the
>> same time.
>>
>> Do you know what the story on dev->rx_dropped is? The kdoc says drivers
>> are not supposed to use it but:
>>
>> drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:               atomic_long_inc(&skb->dev->rx_dropped);
>> drivers/net/macvlan.c:  atomic_long_inc(&skb->dev->rx_dropped);
>> drivers/net/vxlan.c:            atomic_long_inc(&vxlan->dev->rx_dropped);
>>
>> Maybe tun can use it, too?
>>
> Thanks, yes that should be possible. Here we speak about tx_dropped,
> but AFAICS the same applies as for rx_dropped. Will change it accordingly
> in a v3.
> 
For rx_dropped and tx_dropped it's easy, however tun also has a per-cpu
counter for rx_frame_errors that is incremented if virtio_net_hdr_to_skb()
fails. Not sure how to deal best with this one.