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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net, arybchenko@solarflare.com,
	"Stokes, Ian" <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/2] ethdev: introduce internal rxq/txq stats API
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:54:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190319105401.0974a7ac@shemminger-XPS-13-9360> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190319175401.xXvpXvCIph4IG61w0utr8Q38oBwscD_YBzJpLzhngJ4@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f36e778c-0d19-df29-4cff-1a4be8daf356@intel.com>

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:18:08 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 3/14/2019 3:13 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> > Introduce a new api to retrieve per queue statistics from the drivers.
> > The api objectives:
> > - easily add some common per queue statistics and have it exposed
> >   through the user xstats api while the user stats api is left untouched
> > - remove the limitations on the per queue statistics count (inherited
> >   from ixgbe) and avoid recurrent bugs on stats array overflow  
> 
> The patch is adding two new dev_ops 'rxq_stats_get' & 'txq_stats_get', my
> concern is if it is overkill to have three dev_ops to get stats
> and I am feeling that is making xstat code more complex.
> 
> Would it be simpler to add 'q_ierrors' & 'q_oerrors' to 'struct rte_eth_stats'?
> 
> And perhaps we can do the 'fix rxq q_errors' patchset [1] after this change, so
> fix can be done with less changes, although it will push the fix into next
> release because of the ABI break.
> OR ethdev will be broken this release, because of max_mtu, since ABI is already
> broken perhaps we can squeeze this in.
> 
> Overall I would like to get more comment on this, Andrew, Thomas?
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>  
> 
> <...>
> 

My preference would be:
  1. Make all DPDK drivers consistent in usage of current statistic values.
  2. Propose an enhancement to have new ethdev statistics match some pre-existing
     standard like SNMP or other RFC.
  3. Reduce custom (xstats) values by using #2. Leave it for driver specific stuff.

I.e: don't modify existing API at all, make a new one.

PS: ethdev is one of those structures that needs to get removed/hidden from
application headers.  It should be possible to add/remove stuff from ethdev internals, device and bus
without breaking API/ABI.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-04 11:18 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] rxq q_errors[] statistics fixes David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/12] net/af_packet: fix incorrect rxq errors stat David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/12] net/avp: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 12:18   ` Legacy, Allain
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/12] net/bnxt: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/12] net/cxgbe: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/12] net/kni: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/12] net/mlx4: " David Marchand
2019-03-05  8:19   ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/12] net/mlx5: " David Marchand
2019-03-05  8:18   ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/12] net/null: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/12] net/pcap: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/12] net/ring: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/12] net/szedata2: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/12] net/tap: " David Marchand
2019-03-04 13:58   ` Wiles, Keith
2019-03-11 17:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] rxq q_errors[] statistics fixes Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-11 18:09   ` David Marchand
2019-03-14 15:12     ` David Marchand
2019-03-14 15:12       ` David Marchand
2019-03-14 15:13       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/2] ethdev: introduce internal rxq/txq stats API David Marchand
2019-03-14 15:13         ` David Marchand
2019-03-14 15:13         ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/2] net/af_packet: convert to new " David Marchand
2019-03-14 15:13           ` David Marchand
2019-03-15 13:30         ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/2] ethdev: introduce internal " David Marchand
2019-03-15 13:30           ` David Marchand
2019-03-19 17:18         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-19 17:18           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-19 17:54           ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-03-19 17:54             ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-12 13:18             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 13:18               ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-26  9:29           ` David Marchand
2019-03-26  9:29             ` David Marchand
2019-04-12 13:29             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 13:29               ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 14:32               ` David Marchand
2019-04-12 14:32                 ` David Marchand
2019-04-12 16:05                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-12 16:05                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-12 15:07   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] rxq q_errors[] statistics fixes Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 15:07     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 15:38     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 15:38       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 15:45       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 15:45         ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 15:57         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 15:57           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-05-28 21:38 ` Yigit, Ferruh

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