[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/11] Port XStats

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Oct 29 14:10:54 CET 2015


2015-10-29 08:55, Kyle Larose:
> Ultimately the issue we are trying to solve is that there is no device
> independent way to get any detailed statistics from NICs controlled by
> DPDK. These statistics are quite useful, not just for diagnostics, but
> for long term reporting. People using DPDK-based NFV products in a
> production environment are not going to be happy that they cannot, for
> example, see how the packet size bucket counters varied over time
> using some sort of monitoring tool.

I don't understand.
The basic statistics are provided in a common API.
The other ones are not available in every NICs and can only be interpreted
while knowing the device. So what is the need exactly?
Do you know an example of a networking layer having this kind of API?


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