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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst index 60993cb56b..9d958128a5 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 |