From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: "David Harton (dharton)" <dharton@cisco.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Future Direction for rte_eth_stats_get()
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:23:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160201212348.GB17493@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b3f956b6f7c490181b3db81b2c8d99a@XCH-RCD-016.cisco.com>
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 04:47:56PM +0000, David Harton (dharton) wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I didn't see any follow up to this response.
>
> My original concern was rte_eth_stats_get() moving away from a more
> conventional based definition (note, I believe Matthew Hall made an
> interesting suggestion to follow a MIB based definition elsewhere).
> However, if modifying that API is not desired then I'd really like to have
> some feedback about extending the current xstats model.
>
> Again, it is desired not to have to copy and/or parse strings for
> scalability reasons but still maintain the "ABI flexibility" for which the
> xstats model was geared towards.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
For me, I'd like to be able to get the core common stats in single memory
blocks which are as self-consistent and atomic as possible.
I'd prefer to only resort to stuff like xstats using some kind of
string-to-number lookup at the beginning, and only for weird stuff not the
common MIB-like items.
>From past experience this would be very valuable.
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-01 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 17:18 David Harton (dharton)
2016-01-22 11:07 ` Tahhan, Maryam
2016-01-22 13:40 ` David Harton (dharton)
2016-01-22 14:18 ` Tahhan, Maryam
2016-01-22 14:40 ` David Harton (dharton)
2016-01-22 14:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-22 15:22 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-01-22 15:53 ` Jay Rolette
2016-01-22 16:04 ` David Harton (dharton)
2016-01-22 16:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-22 16:41 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-01-22 19:26 ` David Harton (dharton)
2016-01-28 9:37 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-02-01 16:47 ` David Harton (dharton)
2016-02-01 21:23 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2016-02-02 11:40 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-02-05 21:16 ` David Harton (dharton)
2016-02-19 8:59 ` Tahhan, Maryam
2016-01-22 14:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-22 14:48 ` Tahhan, Maryam
2016-01-22 15:02 ` Igor Ryzhov
2016-01-22 20:48 ` Matthew Hall
2016-02-02 12:44 ` Tahhan, Maryam
2016-02-02 13:47 ` Kyle Larose
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