Virtualization - Nov 2021 - [PATH v1 2/2] vdpa/mlx5: Add support for reading descriptor statistics

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:56 AM Eli Cohen <elic at nvidia.com>
wrote:
>
> Implement the get_vq_stats calback of vdpa_config_ops to return the
> statistics for a virtqueue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic at nvidia.com>
> ---
> V0 -> V1:
> Use mutex to sync stats query with change of number of queues
>
[...]
> +static int mlx5_get_vq_stats(struct vdpa_device *vdev, u16 *idx,
> +                            struct vdpa_vq_stats *stats)
> +{
> +       struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev = to_mvdev(vdev);
> +       struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev = to_mlx5_vdpa_ndev(mvdev);
> +       struct mlx5_vdpa_virtqueue *mvq = &ndev->vqs[*idx];
> +       struct mlx5_control_vq *cvq;
> +       int err;
> +
> +       mutex_lock(&ndev->numq_lock);
> +       if ((!ctrl_vq_active(mvdev) && *idx >=
ndev->cur_num_vqs) ||
> +           (*idx != ctrl_vq_idx(mvdev) && *idx >=
ndev->cur_num_vqs)) {
> +               err = -EINVAL;
> +               goto out;
Interesting, I wonder if it's simpler that we just allow stats up to
the max vqs. It's sometimes useful to dump the stats of all the vqs so
we can let that policy to userspace. Then we can get rid of the mutex.

Thanks