[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] usertools/telemetry: add non-interactive mode

[David Hunt]

On 15/9/2021 11:49 AM, Power, Ciara wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>> Sent: Monday 13 September 2021 11:54
>> To: Hunt, David <david.hunt at intel.com>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Power, Ciara <ciara.power at intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] usertools/telemetry: add non-interactive
>> mode
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:43:25AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 04:56:25PM +0100, David Hunt wrote:
>>>> Add non-interactive mode to dpdk-telemetry.py so that a query string
>>>> can be supplied on the command line, and script dumps out data and
>>>> exits. Handing for calling from scripts.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I like the use of "-q" for adding a query mode - it's
>>> more a shortcut parameter for a "quiet" mode. If I may, I'd suggest an
>>> alternative approach here might be to improve support for piping the
>>> input commands to the script instead so that you can do e.g.
>>>
>>> "echo /ethdev/stats,0 | dpdk-telemetry.py"
>>>
>>> and have that work well in a script.
>>>
>>> I'll do up a patchset for improving that and upstream it for feedback.
>>>
>> Now at: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=18867
>>
>> /Bruce
> Thanks for this, although I do think the improvement to allow for piping is a better solution.
> I have acked Bruce's patchset, hopefully that will be suitable for your use case.
>
> Thanks,
> Ciara


+1

I'll mark my patchset as superceeded.

Rgds,
Dave.