Merge branch 'net-allow-user-specify-TC-action-HW-stats-type'

Jiri Pirko says:

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net: allow user specify TC action HW stats type

Currently, when user adds a TC action and the action gets offloaded,
the user expects the HW stats to be counted and included in stats dump.
However, since drivers may implement different types of counting, there
is no way to specify which one the user is interested in.

For example for mlx5, only delayed counters are available as the driver
periodically polls for updated stats.

In case of mlxsw, the counters are queried on dump time. However, the
HW resources for this type of counters is quite limited (couple of
thousands). This limits the amount of supported offloaded filters
significantly. Without counter assigned, the HW is capable to carry
millions of those.

On top of that, mlxsw HW is able to support delayed counters as well in
greater numbers. That is going to be added in a follow-up patch.

This patchset allows user to specify one of the following types of HW
stats for added action:
immediate - queried during dump time
delayed - polled from HW periodically or sent by HW in async manner
disabled - no stats needed

Note that if "hw_stats" option is not passed, user does not care about
the type, just expects any type of stats.

Examples:
$ tc filter add dev enp0s16np28 ingress proto ip handle 1 pref 1 flower skip_sw dst_ip 192.168.1.1 action drop hw_stats disabled
$ tc -s filter show dev enp0s16np28 ingress
filter protocol ip pref 1 flower chain 0
filter protocol ip pref 1 flower chain 0 handle 0x1
  eth_type ipv4
  dst_ip 192.168.1.1
  skip_sw
  in_hw in_hw_count 2
        action order 1: gact action drop
         random type none pass val 0
         index 1 ref 1 bind 1 installed 7 sec used 2 sec
        Action statistics:
        Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
        backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
        hw_stats disabled

$ tc filter add dev enp0s16np28 ingress proto ip handle 1 pref 1 flower skip_sw dst_ip 192.168.1.1 action drop hw_stats immediate
$ tc -s filter show dev enp0s16np28 ingress
filter protocol ip pref 1 flower chain 0
filter protocol ip pref 1 flower chain 0 handle 0x1
  eth_type ipv4
  dst_ip 192.168.1.1
  skip_sw
  in_hw in_hw_count 2
        action order 1: gact action drop
         random type none pass val 0
         index 1 ref 1 bind 1 installed 11 sec used 4 sec
        Action statistics:
        Sent 102 bytes 1 pkt (dropped 1, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
        Sent software 0 bytes 0 pkt
        Sent hardware 102 bytes 1 pkt
        backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
        hw_stats immediate
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
index 449a63971451..81cc1a869588 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ enum {
 	TCA_ACT_PAD,
 	TCA_ACT_COOKIE,
 	TCA_ACT_FLAGS,
+	TCA_ACT_HW_STATS_TYPE,
 	__TCA_ACT_MAX
 };
 
@@ -24,6 +25,27 @@ enum {
 					 * actions stats.
 					 */
 
+/* tca HW stats type
+ * When user does not pass the attribute, he does not care.
+ * It is the same as if he would pass the attribute with
+ * all supported bits set.
+ * In case no bits are set, user is not interested in getting any HW statistics.
+ */
+#define TCA_ACT_HW_STATS_TYPE_IMMEDIATE (1 << 0) /* Means that in dump, user
+						  * gets the current HW stats
+						  * state from the device
+						  * queried at the dump time.
+						  */
+#define TCA_ACT_HW_STATS_TYPE_DELAYED (1 << 1) /* Means that in dump, user gets
+						* HW stats that might be out
+						* of date for some time, maybe
+						* couple of seconds. This is
+						* the case when driver polls
+						* stats updates periodically
+						* or when it gets async stats update
+						* from the device.
+						*/
+
 #define TCA_ACT_MAX __TCA_ACT_MAX
 #define TCA_OLD_COMPAT (TCA_ACT_MAX+1)
 #define TCA_ACT_MAX_PRIO 32