[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB for e1000
Pattan, Reshma
reshma.pattan at intel.com
Wed Jul 5 15:02:19 CEST 2017
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:36 PM
> > For 2, does the "use existing methods" include calling xstats? If so,
> > then we can just drop the requirement for 2 to have any new functions
> > implemented in the driver. Instead, have the information provided by
> > drivers in the normal xstats call, but have a new ethdev API to
> > provide that information to the app - basically hiding the xstats
> > complexity underneath.
>
> I was thinking another dev_ops similar to xstats, but re-using xstats can be
> better idea here.
>
> so option 2 becomes:
> [2] An eth_dev API to use existing APIs to get information from PMDs and
> wrap MIBs related xstats calls.
>
Instead of getting information/configuration related mib attributes in xstats_get, we should have new eth_dev op to get all those mib attributes which don’t have any ethdev API.
Then the new eth_dev API can call this new eth_dev op and other existing ethdev APIs to gather all mib information and expose that to user.
Thanks,
Reshma
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