[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/2] doc: announce queue stats moving to xstats

[Igor Ryzhov]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the slides, I checked the latest code and multicast/broadcast
counters mostly look standardized. But mlx5 adds the "port" word to all
its xstats names. I suppose you may be the right person to ask - is there
any specific reason for this?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:45 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
wrote:

> 14/10/2020 11:35, Igor Ryzhov:
> > Hi Ferruh,
> >
> > As rte_eth_stats is going to be changed, is it possible to add new
> counters
> > there?
> > For example, in/out multicast/broadcast packets.
>
> Good question.
> In order to avoid redundancy, I prefer focusing on xstats
> and plan deprecation of rte_eth_stats.
>
> The basic stats you are asking for should have standardized names
> and reserved ids in xstats API.
> Please see these slides:
> https://fast.dpdk.org/events/slides/DPDK-2019-09-Ethernet_Statistics.pdf
>
>
>