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

[Thomas Monjalon]

15/10/2020 09:55, 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?

No specific reason, I consider it as a bug.
Please could you open a bugzilla ticket?


> 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