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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: "Dai, Wei" <wei.dai@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>,
	"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	Guo Fengtian <fengtian.guo@6wind.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbevf: fix stats update after a PF reset
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:46:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314104640.32b06adb@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170216174922.720f83b9@platinum>

Hi Wei,

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:49:22 +0100, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> wrote:
> Hi Wei,
> 
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:50:05 +0000, "Dai, Wei" <wei.dai@intel.com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dai, Wei
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 10:38 PM
> > > To: 'Olivier Matz' <olivier.matz@6wind.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Zhang,
> > > Helin <helin.zhang@intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> > > <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
> > > Cc: Guo Fengtian <fengtian.guo@6wind.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbevf: fix stats update after
> > > a PF reset
> > > 
> > > The stats register can rewind to zero when the port is running for
> > > a long period. So I am afraid that this check is not always correct.
> > > Why not introduce a variable to directly indicate whether the
> > > resulted stats should be updated or not.  
> >
> > Another way is to clear
> > hw_stats->last_vfgprc/last_vfgorc/last_vfgptc/last_vfmprc at the same
> > time PF is set down.
> >   
> 
> Can we know easily in VF if the PF was set down?

Any guideline for this? Or is it something we cannot fix?

Thanks,
Olivier

      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-14  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-11 17:04 [dpdk-stable] " Olivier Matz
2017-02-06 13:58 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Olivier Matz
2017-02-09 14:37   ` Dai, Wei
2017-02-09 14:50   ` Dai, Wei
2017-02-16 16:49     ` Olivier Matz
2017-03-14  9:46       ` Olivier Matz [this message]

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