On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Upinder Malhi (umalhi) <[email protected]> wrote: > We are happy to use netlink if it makes sense. What you are saying is: > Netlink is used all over the kernel. Bc it is used all over the kernel, it > must be the right answer for all userspace/kernel interactions. Therefore, > if something doesn't use netlink, it must be wrong (ex. procfs, sysfs, > debugfs). > > We want to put the rx byte/packet count in debug fs because it is intended > for developers. We do not want to put these in a common infrastructure bc as > we have found internally, lacking tx statistics confuses users. We are being > asked to write the ib core statistics infrastructure, that if it was > available today, we would not use. So unless someone else jumps in here, we > are going to keep these in the debug fs.
What wrong with exposing the the flow tuples from netlink and then see what's missing that justified debugfs? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
