[PATCH net-next v9 2/5] net: spacemit: Add K1 Ethernet MAC

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 00:35:37 +0800 Vivian Wang wrote:
> >> On a closer look, these counters in ndev->stats seems to be redundant
> >> with the hardware-tracked statistics, so maybe I should just not bother
> >> with updating ndev->stats. Does that make sense?  
> > For rx/tx packets/bytes I think that makes sense.
> > But what about rx/tx drops?  
> 
> Right... but tstats doesn't have *_dropped. It seems that tx_dropped and
> rx_dropped are considered "slow path" for real devices. It makes sense
> to me that those should be very rare.

Pretty sure Simon meant the per-cpu netdev stats in general.
There are three types of them, if you need drops I think you
probably want dstats. Take a look.