Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v3 4/4] ifstat: Add "sw only" extended statistics to ifstat

From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:10:19 -0800

On 12/22/16, 8:23 AM, Nogah Frankel wrote:
> Add support for extended statistics of SW only type, for counting only the
> packets that went via the cpu. (useful for systems with forward
> offloading). It reads it from filter type IFLA_STATS_LINK_OFFLOAD_XSTATS
> and sub type IFLA_OFFLOAD_XSTATS_CPU_HIT.
>
> It is under the name 'software'
> (or any shorten of it as 'soft' or simply 's')
>
> For example:
> ifstat -x s
>
>
Nogah, can we keep the option names closer to the attribute names ?
That would avoid some confusion and help with the follow-up stats.

ifstat -x offload cpu
or
ifstat -x cpu

for others it would be:

ifstat -x link [vlan|igmp]
ifstat -x vlan
ifstat -x igmp
ifstat -x lacp

and so on...

thanks!