mlxsw: spectrum_ptp: Add counters for GC events
On Spectrum-1, timestamped PTP packets and the corresponding timestamps need to be kept in caches until both are available, at which point they are matched up and packets forwarded as appropriate. However, not all packets will ever see their timestamp, and not all timestamps will ever see their packet. It is necessary to dispose of such abandoned entries, so a garbage collector was introduced in commit 5d23e415 ("mlxsw: spectrum: PTP: Garbage-collect unmatched entries"). If these GC events happen often, it is a sign of a problem. However because this whole mechanism is taking place behind the scenes, there is no direct way to determine whether garbage collection took place. Therefore to fix this, on Spectrum-1 only, expose four artificial ethtool counters for the GC events: GCd timestamps and packets, in TX and RX directions. Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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