Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v3 02/14] devlink: Add reload actions counters

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Sep 01 2020 - 20:01:37 EST


On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 22:05:36 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
> >> +void devlink_reload_actions_cnts_update(struct devlink *devlink, unsigned long actions_done)
> >> +{
> >> + int action;
> >> +
> >> + for (action = 0; action < DEVLINK_RELOAD_ACTION_MAX; action++) {
> >> + if (!test_bit(action, &actions_done))
> >> + continue;
> >> + devlink->reload_actions_cnts[action]++;
> >> + }
> >> +}
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devlink_reload_actions_cnts_update);
> > I don't follow why this is an exported symbol if you only use it from
> > this .c. Looks like a leftover...
> >
> Not leftover, in the commit message I notified and explained why I
> exposed it.

We should generate devlink notifications on this event (down and up)
so the counters don't have to be exposed to drivers. We need a more
thorough API.