linux-kernel - Re: [V2 RFC net-next PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: export more statistics through ethtool

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Message-ID: <4FD11194.2040405@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:39:48 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jasowang@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [V2 RFC net-next PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: export more statistics
 through ethtool

On 06/07/2012 01:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 13:05 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Ben Hutchings<bhutchings@...arflare.com>
>> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:15:06 +0100
>>
>>> I would really like to see some sort of convention for presenting
>>> per-queue statistics through ethtool.  At the moment we have a complete
>>> mess of different formats:
>>
>> Indeed.  Probably ${QUEUE_TYPE}-${INDEX}-${STATISTIC} is best.
>> With an agreed upon list of queue types such as "rx", "tx", "rxtx"
>> etc.
>
> I think we should leave the type names open-ended, as there are other
> useful groupings like per-virtual-port.  In that case the separator
> should be chosen to allow arbitrary type names without ambiguity.

So you mean like something along the lines of the presence of say '.' 
indicating indent a level:

rx_bytes:  1234
     myqueue1.rx_bytes: 234
     myqueue2.rx_bytes: 345
     ...

rick jones
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