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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, reshma.pattan@intel.com,
	michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com, deepak.k.jain@intel.com,
	harry.van.haaren@intel.com, piotrx.t.azarewicz@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB for e1000
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:08:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4375ffd8-6957-7f53-a9b0-081e705a5eb1@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498470133-29788-1-git-send-email-radu.nicolau@intel.com>

On 6/26/2017 10:42 AM, Radu Nicolau wrote:
> From: Michal Jastrzebski <michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com>
> 
> If-MIB xstats:
> ifNumber
> ifIndex
> ifType
> ifMtu
> ifSpeed
> ifPhysAddress
> ifOperStatus
> ifLastChange
> ifHighSpeed
> ifConnectorPresent
> ifCounterDiscontinuityTime
> 
> EtherLike-MIB xstats:
> dot3PauseOperMode
> dot3StatsDuplexStatus
> dot3StatsRateControlAbility
> dot3StatsRateControlStatus
> dot3ControlFunctionsSupported
> 
> -updated in v2: coding style
> 
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Azarewicz <piotrx.t.azarewicz@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Jastrzebski <michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>

<...>

This patch implements MIBs for some Intel drivers using xstats, this is
easy way to get some information from PMDs.

But there was a outstanding comment to make this ethdev layer.

So I believe we have two options:

[1]
Each PMD implements MIBs using xstats, this is pragmatic solution and
each PMD can implement whichever MIBs they want.

[2]
Implement a ethdev layer API and add a new dev_ops to get MIBs, API can
use existing methods to get required information, and if it fails can
call dev_ops which can be similar to the xstats.
Because of API all PMDs can have a small amount of support by default
and they can implement dev_ops for more support.


Although 2) looks more generic and proper, I am not really sure if that
is overkill and if this worth to the effort and to have new API and
dev_ops, comparing current method is easy to implement, any comments?

Thanks,
ferruh

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-27 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22 14:31 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB Michal Jastrzebski
2017-05-22 14:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB for e1000 Michal Jastrzebski
2017-05-22 16:16   ` Pattan, Reshma
2017-05-22 16:34   ` Pattan, Reshma
2017-05-23  5:53     ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2017-06-20 11:38       ` Radu Nicolau
2017-06-26  9:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Radu Nicolau
2017-06-27 11:08     ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-06-27 11:21       ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-27 11:36         ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-05 13:02           ` Pattan, Reshma
2017-06-27 22:26     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-06 11:48       ` Pattan, Reshma
2017-07-19 10:40     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-05-22 14:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB for i40e Michal Jastrzebski
2017-05-31  5:29   ` Xing, Beilei
2017-06-26  9:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Radu Nicolau
2017-05-22 14:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB for ixgbe Michal Jastrzebski
2017-06-26  9:39   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Radu Nicolau
2017-06-27 22:27     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-22 16:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB Stephen Hemminger

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