[ofa-general] Re: RFC: location for IB CM statistics

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> Subject: RFC: location for IB CM statistics
> 
> I'd like to start adding some statistical information to the IB CM to help
> identify scalability or connectivity issues.  Some example statistics that I
> would like to expose now are number of retried MADs, unmatched requests, total
> number of connections, etc.  Longer term, additional statistics and information
> on each connection could be added.
> 
> I'm looking for ideas on the best way to expose this sort of data.  Any
> thoughts?

I would start with adding data to debugfs - we don't have
to maintain format stability there.  When we are convinced
we got the format right, we'll be able to add data to
sysfs/proc as well.

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