[ofa-general] [PATCH] IB/iSER: Add module param to count alignment violations

[Mike Christie]

Mike Christie wrote:
> Pete Wyckoff wrote:
>> rdreier at cisco.com wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:51 -0700:
>>>  > Add read only module param to count alignment violations.
>>>
>>> I don't think a module parameter is the way to report statistics from
>>> the kernel.  Can't you just add a device attribute or something?  Or
>>> stick a file in debugfs?
>> This is definitely a worthwhile change though.  By monitoring this
>> statistic we were able to get good insight to what our apps are
>> doing to cause these alignment violations.
>>
>> I have a hacky patch that tries to export it via sysfs, but it
>> doesn't clean up properly.  The iscsi transport class defines the
>> sysfs tree and doesn't give hooks to a particular device to
>> add/change those entries, which is why this approach came out rather
>> ugly.  Hope Eli is willing to do this the right way; maybe debugfs
>> is the way to go.
>>
> 
> We have iscsi stats already. I thought Eli sent a patch to put this 
> there already? If not then put this in the get_stats callout as one of 
> the iser custom values.
> 

Nevermind I see the other mail.