Re: [PATCH v5 11/15] misc: bcm-vk: add BCM_VK_QSTATS

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Oct 01 2020 - 18:13:43 EST




On 10/1/2020 3:12 PM, Scott Branden wrote:


On 2020-09-30 7:33 p.m., Florian Fainelli wrote:


On 9/30/2020 6:28 PM, Scott Branden wrote:
Add BCM_VK_QSTATS Kconfig option to allow for enabling debug VK
queue statistics.

These statistics keep track of max, abs_max, and average for the
messages queues.

Co-developed-by: Desmond Yan <desmond.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Desmond Yan <desmond.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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[snip]

+#if defined(CONFIG_BCM_VK_QSTATS)
+    /* clear qstats */
+    for (i = 0; i < VK_MSGQ_MAX_NR; i++) {
+        memset(&vk->to_v_msg_chan.qstats[i].qcnts, 0,
+               sizeof(vk->to_v_msg_chan.qstats[i].qcnts));
+        memset(&vk->to_h_msg_chan.qstats[i].qcnts, 0,
+               sizeof(vk->to_h_msg_chan.qstats[i].qcnts));
+    }
+#endif
      /* clear 4096 bits of bitmap */
      bitmap_clear(vk->bmap, 0, VK_MSG_ID_BITMAP_SIZE);

It was not clear from looking at this patch how are the statistics exposed and how does one actually get them?
The QSTATS, since it is only for debug purpose, it will dump out periodically based on processed_num.
Nothing fancy as we only compile it in in extreme case for recreating a scenario.

But what kind of interface is that? Cannot you at least expose those through sysfs if nothing else?
--
Florian