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SubjectRE: [PATCH V2 net-next 1/8] net: hns3: Add support of HNS3 Ethernet Driver for hip08 SoC
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Hi Stephen,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 4:48 PM
> To: Salil Mehta
> Cc: davem@davemloft.net; Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen); huangdaode; lipeng (Y);
> mehta.salil.lnk@gmail.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Linuxarm
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 1/8] net: hns3: Add support of HNS3
> Ethernet Driver for hip08 SoC
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:10:28 +0100
> Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> > +hns3_nic_get_stats64(struct net_device *ndev, struct
> rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
> > +{
> > + struct hns3_nic_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
> > + int queue_num = priv->ae_handle->kinfo.num_tqps;
> > + u64 tx_bytes = 0;
> > + u64 rx_bytes = 0;
> > + u64 tx_pkts = 0;
> > + u64 rx_pkts = 0;
> > + int idx = 0;
> unnecessary initialization
>
> > +
> > + for (idx = 0; idx < queue_num; idx++) {
> > + tx_bytes += priv->ring_data[idx].ring->stats.tx_bytes;
> > + tx_pkts += priv->ring_data[idx].ring->stats.tx_pkts;
> > + rx_bytes +=
> > + priv->ring_data[idx + queue_num].ring-
> >stats.rx_bytes;
> > + rx_pkts += priv->ring_data[idx + queue_num].ring-
> >stats.rx_pkts;
> > + }
> > +
>
> Since rx_bytes and other statistics are 64 bit values. You need to use
> something to ensure that updates to these values are atomic on 32 bit
> platforms. The most common way to handle this is with the
> u64_stats_sync
> mechanism which is a nop on 64 bit architectures, and uses a seqcount
> to do updates on 32 bit CPU's.
Sure good point. This has changed in the V4 patch.

Thanks for guiding.
Salil

>
>

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