On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 03:09:56PM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 10/14/22 13:38, Simon Horman wrote:
> > From: Tianyu Yuan <[email protected]>
> > 
> > This reverts commit dd9881ed55e6 ('tc: Fix stats dump when
> > using same meter table')
> > 
> > This patch doesn't solve the tc flow stats update issue and
> > will lead to failure of system-offloads-traffic testsuite, it
> > only counts packets surviving after the tc filter, rather than
> > hitting the filter
> > 
> > A following patch will come up to solve this flow stats update
> > issue
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tianyu Yuan <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  lib/tc.c | 11 -----------
> >  1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Hi.  I'm not really sure what is worse - the undercounting or overcounting.
> If you think that revert is a good temporary solution then it's fine by me:
> 
> Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>

Thanks. I see that this could go either way. And to be honest I don't feel
strongly about it. But our position is that the fix wasn't a fix. So it's
better to revert it. And work on a proper solution.

> It might make sense to add a note to the 'Known TC flow offload limitations'
> in Documentation/howto/tc-offload.rst about this issue though.

Yes, good idea.
We'll follow-up on that.

Kind regards,
Simon
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