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Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2022 07:16:30 +0100
From:   Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/1] net: dsa: microchip: add stats64 support
 for ksz8 series of switches
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 11:41:33AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon,  5 Dec 2022 06:29:04 +0100 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > +	stats->rx_packets = raw->rx_bcast + raw->rx_mcast + raw->rx_ucast +
> > +		raw->rx_pause;
> > +	stats->tx_packets = raw->tx_bcast + raw->tx_mcast + raw->tx_ucast +
> > +		raw->tx_pause;
> 
> FWIW for normal netdevs / NICs the rtnl_link_stat pkts do not include
> pause frames, normally. Otherwise one can't maintain those stats in SW
> (and per-ring stats, if any, don't add up to the full link stats).
> But if you have a good reason to do this - I won't nack..

Pause frames are accounted by rx/tx_bytes by HW. Since pause frames may
have different size, it is not possible to correct byte counters, so I
need to add them to the packet counters.

Regards,
Oleksij
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