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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Future Direction for rte_eth_stats_get()
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2016-01-22 16:04, David Harton:
> I think parsing strings is expensive CPU wise
[...]
> wondering if something that is performance friendly for the user/application
> and flexible for the drivers is possible.

I think we need some numbers from experimentations and some requirements.
How many cycles it takes to read stats?
How often stats must be read at max?