From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B539209 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:53:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmdw130 with SMTP id w130so162720673wmd.0 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:53:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind_com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=9Q3syys1OzsJRTwUY0wYVdNfmvS6YVpLYygUeBRLVas=; b=vI/Mw9dNVxKdJeS7GOTqE0nZwCkX78rn3CarE+XMLEj6l6E98xCqVPp+fHk9BXNWww v7z0+zimILg30w2y7I9YQM+n0x1YuxChQ35DgBnEMazoXM5j1r7zOMR0X+G+IM+yHvKI J9MLAlwcgz332c34aF3h2Lz2acfrAvupGw0/WhVPiel2EN599hKiq1k8z74QTeuK/pSM rEAWa39xKap+R5DAYsby0AMX4uyI0pf0B/O8ldPIjKID2T/5O1jmhQ64Jgj1S6powGa5 JNwldHhfH2fVB1gWpOpUGe+ya7TMLZ6OaQOeDI9zFSyP2VGW0HQX27mjOMPbhjO9hPyc D28A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=9Q3syys1OzsJRTwUY0wYVdNfmvS6YVpLYygUeBRLVas=; b=cCmWD+Y2/NtAlOHJG1gzD11VWQq2oW6l3qJlLYAPTTZNkXOVWD3nB5+eMo02zL2SZp hH9vmPRPyWMKF8Qh9i5H2BMsr6Pywwwobgr/aOZev+KWQQ8AWahR5rxpOhiBe4nkAE3E xZe7AqRO39eGtRxBkpsfuwEX4wzFbOJM4eJsM2YygOdzNHHXTCoB8Lr35qhV5rB7QAuk Fr1GYphauMCbfdgj5EHv5axHti7/hpKVw+5vIkononazpxxlx0dj9cSBwa+NiSSMEuHl +IOdNz/HutiwI0440HFio4oYdEIL0j1zwR8788dL7pUyd2q3h6bOndeJ4MB/yif9Q8GI eTEA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmfiuRbSuCUlQuFOaecaPx86/Mv5pWEkJX9FmY9AXWbKDxLMwLu3l5iWhALa3qvWjyqboPy X-Received: by 10.194.249.69 with SMTP id ys5mr19241046wjc.97.1447347217140; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id bk7sm15348758wjb.25.2015.11.12.08.53.36 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:53:36 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:52:24 +0100 Message-ID: <2206525.9MQsTNsirq@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1446771879-3979-2-git-send-email-stephen@networkplumber.org> References: <1446771879-3979-1-git-send-email-stephen@networkplumber.org> <1446771879-3979-2-git-send-email-stephen@networkplumber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] ether: don't mark input multicast for deprecation X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:53:37 -0000 2015-11-05 17:04, Stephen Hemminger: > The number of received multicast frames is useful and already > available in many/most drivers. Therefore don't mark it as > deprecated. There are other useful stats in xstats. The idea of this basic stats structure is to provide only the really mandatory and basic counters. A multicast counter is not so basic and won't be implemented everywhere. This patch won't be applied. We'll need a consensus to definitively remove the deprecated stats.