Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] app/procinfo: fix redundant condition

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/18/2020 2:10 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:46 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> '_filters' is compared twice, second one will be always false, removing
>> it using the message more relevant to the '_filters'.
>>
>> Fixes: 2deb6b5246d7 ("app/procinfo: add collectd format and host id")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>> ---
>>   app/proc-info/main.c | 4 +---
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/app/proc-info/main.c b/app/proc-info/main.c
>> index d743209f0d..35e5b596eb 100644
>> --- a/app/proc-info/main.c
>> +++ b/app/proc-info/main.c
>> @@ -420,11 +420,9 @@ static void collectd_resolve_cnt_type(char *cnt_type, size_t cnt_type_len,
>>          } else if ((type_end != NULL) &&
>>                     (strncmp(cnt_name, "flow_", strlen("flow_"))) == 0) {
>>                  if (strncmp(type_end, "_filters", strlen("_filters")) == 0)
>> -                       strlcpy(cnt_type, "operations", cnt_type_len);
>> +                       strlcpy(cnt_type, "filter_result", cnt_type_len);
> 
> Do you know what impact this change of type could have?
> 

Since the default behavior is changing it has potential to impact it's users but 
I don't know.

"_filters" stat was searched twice and type were set "operations" & 
"filter_result" respectively, I unified it to one and selected "filter_result" 
which seems more relevant.