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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Kyle Larose <eomereadig@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/11] Port XStats
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:01:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14919853.N7JUKnnn3e@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMFWN9kgkUH_Ag0Ci+1hq6FG_Mn68F_zm=GxgzRfjGHJ4RLU3w@mail.gmail.com>

2015-10-29 09:57, Kyle Larose:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand.
> > The basic statistics are provided in a common API.
> > The other ones are not available in every NICs and can only be interpreted
> > while knowing the device. So what is the need exactly?
> 
> The need is to provide information to users about what sort of traffic
> is being seen by the device, and why the hardware is behaving the way
> it is, leveraging as much as possible the capabilities of the hardware
> with minimal effort (i.e. not implementing an abstraction layer at a
> higher level).
> 
> These are quite useful for diagnosing wider network issues
> (configuration, misbehaving devices, dirty fibers/etc). The common API
> doesn't expose the more detailed information requested by the various
> ethernet mibs. Of course, not all stats are applicable to all devices
> (e.g. collisions), but those that are available are still invaluable.

Thanks for the explanation.

> > Do you know an example of a networking layer having this kind of API?
> 
> I have worked with SDKs for a few different physical switches and
> NPUs. They all provide this sort of API. I think it is quite common
> with networking equipment such as routers or switches. These stats
> tend to be exposed over SNMP at the very least, and often within local
> utilities on the devices themselves.

So what is missing currently? Just having a consistent naming of
similar counters?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-29 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30  9:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/11] doc: add extended statistics notes Harry van Haaren
2015-10-22 15:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/11] Port XStats Harry van Haaren
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/11] doc: add extended statistics notes Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] Port XStats Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 01/10] doc: add extended statistics to prog_guide Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/10] Port XStats Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:18             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 01/10] doc: add extended statistics to prog_guide Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:18             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 02/10] ethdev: update xstats_get() strings and Q handling Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 03/10] virtio: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 04/10] igb: " Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 05/10] igbvf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 06/10] ixgbe: add extended statistic strings Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 22:31               ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 07/10] ixgbevf: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 08/10] i40e: " Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 09/10] i40evf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:19             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 10/10] fm10k: " Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02 10:24             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/10] Port XStats Van Haaren, Harry
2015-11-02 23:23               ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 02/10] ethdev: update xstats_get() strings and Q handling Harry van Haaren
2015-11-02  7:59           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-02 10:17             ` Van Haaren, Harry
2015-11-02 16:23               ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 03/10] virtio: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 04/10] igb: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 05/10] igbvf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 06/10] ixgbe: add extended statistic strings Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 07/10] ixgbevf: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 08/10] i40e: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 09/10] i40evf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 11:36         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 10/10] fm10k: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-30 13:21         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] Port XStats Tahhan, Maryam
2015-11-02  8:04         ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 02/11] doc: add extended statistics to prog_guide Harry van Haaren
2015-10-23 14:29       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 03/11] ethdev: update xstats_get() strings and Q handling Harry van Haaren
2015-10-23 14:35       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-23 15:28         ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-23 15:28       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 04/11] virtio: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-10-29 16:19       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 05/11] igb: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-23 14:56       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 06/11] igbvf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-28 12:17       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 07/11] ixgbe: update statistic strings to scheme Harry van Haaren
2015-10-23 14:41       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 08/11] ixgbevf: add xstats() functions to VF Harry van Haaren
2015-10-28 12:16       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 09/11] i40e: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-10-23 15:11       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 10/11] i40evf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-28 12:15       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-22 15:48     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 11/11] fm10k: " Harry van Haaren
2015-10-29 16:41       ` Tahhan, Maryam
2015-10-28 17:35     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/11] Port XStats Tom Crugnale
2015-10-28 21:32       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-29  0:55         ` Tom Crugnale
2015-10-29 12:55           ` Kyle Larose
2015-10-29 13:10             ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-29 13:57               ` Kyle Larose
2015-10-29 14:01                 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-10-29 14:10                   ` Kyle Larose
2015-10-29 13:17             ` Van Haaren, Harry
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/11] doc: add extended statistics to prog_guide Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/11] ethdev: update xstats_get() strings and Q handling Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/11] virtio: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30 17:44   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01  8:00     ` Van Haaren, Harry
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/11] igb: " Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/11] igbvf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11] ixgbe: update statistic strings to scheme Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/11] ixgbevf: add xstats() functions to VF Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/11] i40e: add xstats() implementation Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/11] i40evf: " Harry van Haaren
2015-09-30  9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/11] fm10k: " Harry van Haaren

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