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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-18 18:50:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-18 18:50:36 +0000 |
| commit | 50ba0232fd5312410f1b65247e774244f89a628e (patch) | |
| tree | fd8f2fc78e9e548af0ff9590276602ee6125be00 /Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst | |
| parent | Releasing progress-linux version 6.7.12-1~progress7.99u1. (diff) | |
| download | linux-50ba0232fd5312410f1b65247e774244f89a628e.tar.xz linux-50ba0232fd5312410f1b65247e774244f89a628e.zip | |
Merging upstream version 6.8.9.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst index 60993cb56..9d958128a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ Architecture overview | Fast cache | | ptr-ring cache | +-----------------+ +------------------+ +Monitoring +========== +Information about page pools on the system can be accessed via the netdev +genetlink family (see Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml). + API interface ============= The number of pools created **must** match the number of hardware queues @@ -107,8 +112,9 @@ page_pool_get_stats() and structures described below are available. It takes a pointer to a ``struct page_pool`` and a pointer to a struct page_pool_stats allocated by the caller. -The API will fill in the provided struct page_pool_stats with -statistics about the page_pool. +Older drivers expose page pool statistics via ethtool or debugfs. +The same statistics are accessible via the netlink netdev family +in a driver-independent fashion. .. kernel-doc:: include/net/page_pool/types.h :identifiers: struct page_pool_recycle_stats |