netdev - RE: [PATCH iproute2 v3 4/4] ifstat: Add "sw only" extended statistics to ifstat

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Date:   Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:23:33 +0000
From:   Nogah Frankel <nogahf@...lanox.com>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        "roszenrami@...il.com" <roszenrami@...il.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>, Elad Raz <eladr@...lanox.com>,
        Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH iproute2 v3 4/4] ifstat: Add "sw only" extended statistics
 to ifstat



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roopa Prabhu [mailto:roopa@...ulusnetworks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 11:10 PM
> To: Nogah Frankel <nogahf@...lanox.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; stephen@...workplumber.org; roszenrami@...il.com; Or
> Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>; Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>; Elad Raz
> <eladr@...lanox.com>; Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>; Ido Schimmel
> <idosch@...lanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v3 4/4] ifstat: Add "sw only" extended statistics to ifstat
> 
> 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!

Sure, I will change it.