Subject: Re: consistency for statistics with XDP mode

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:26:53 +0100

Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > I'd say it sounds reasonable to include XDP in the normal traffic
>> > counters, but having the detailed XDP-specific counters is quite
>> > useful
>> > as well... So can't we do both (for all drivers)?
>> > 
>
> What are you thinking ? 
> reporting XDP_DROP in interface dropped counter ?
> and XDP_TX/REDIRECT in the TX counter ?
> XDP_ABORTED in the  err/drop counter ?
>
> how about having a special XDP command in the .ndo_bpf that would query
> the standardized XDP stats ?

Don't have any strong opinions on the mechanism; just pointing out that
the XDP-specific stats are useful to have separately as well :)

-Toke