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From: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>,
	Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Cc: arybchenko@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix xstat name of basic stats per queue
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 17:53:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1855125c-01f2-8bc2-be73-6a3c29587476@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfa9e124-1120-9600-5816-32953c991d23@intel.com>


On 08/10/2020 16:41, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 10/7/2020 10:48 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> As described in doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst,
>> the naming scheme for the xstats is parts separated with underscore:
>>     * direction
>>     * detail 1
>>     * detail 2
>>     * detail n
>>     * unit
>> where detail 1 can be "q" followed with a queue number.
>> It means the name of the stats per queue should be rx_qN_* or tx_qN_*.
>>
>> The second underscore was missing so far.
>> Fixing the basic xstat names may be considered an API change,
>> that's why it should not be backported.
>>
>> While fixing this mistake, some examples of the naming scheme
>> are given as part of the API documentation of rte_eth_xstat_name.
>> More proposals about standardizing statistics:
>>     http://fast.dpdk.org/events/slides/DPDK-2019-09-Ethernet_Statistics.pdf 
>>
>>
>> Fixes: bd6aa172cf35 ("ethdev: fetch extended statistics with integer 
>> ids")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> no objection,
> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>
>>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 8 +++++++-
>>   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c         | 4 ++--
>>   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h         | 7 +++++++
>>   3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst 
>> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
>> index cdf20404c9..d0d77c5d3d 100644
>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
>> @@ -200,7 +200,13 @@ API Changes
>>     * ethdev: ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done()`` API has been deprecated.
>>   -* Renamed internal ethdev APIs:
>> +* ethdev: Renamed basic statistics per queue. An underscore is inserted
>> +  between the queue number and the rest of the xstat name:
>> +
>> +  * ``rx_qN*`` -> ``rx_qN_*``
>> +  * ``tx_qN*`` -> ``tx_qN_*``
>> +
>
> As far as I remember collect plugin was using xstat output, does this 
> rename affects it? Or any other telemetry application relying on xstats.
>
> Harry, Ciara, Kevin, do you know anything that will be affected from 
> rename?

Looks to me like everything will be ok in the old collectd plugins too - 
from doing a code review, it seems it just gets the names from ethdev.

/Kevin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-07 21:48 Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-08  9:09 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-10-08  9:10 ` Kevin Traynor
2020-10-08 10:29   ` Asaf Penso
2020-10-09 21:00     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-09 21:01   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-08 15:41 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-09  8:32   ` Power, Ciara
2020-10-09  8:36     ` Pattan, Reshma
2020-10-09  9:02       ` David Marchand
2020-10-09  9:08         ` Pattan, Reshma
2020-10-09 16:53   ` Kevin Laatz [this message]
2020-10-09 19:15     ` Ferruh Yigit

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