netdev - Re: Stats for XDP actions

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Date:   Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:16:36 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mst@...hat.com,
        makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp, jasowang@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        hawk@...nel.org, Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@...earbox.net>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: Stats for XDP actions

On 4/18/19 8:24 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Understood. Hopefully in March I will get some time to come back to this
>> and propose an idea on what I would like to see - namely, the admin has
>> a config option at load time to enable driver counters versus custom map
>> counters. (meaning the operator of the node chooses standard stats over
>> strict performance.) But of course that means the drivers have the code
>> to collect those stats.
> 
> Hi David
> 
> I don't recall seeing any follow-up on this. Did you have a chance to
> formulate your ideas? :)
> 

Not yet. Almost done with the nexthop changes. Once that is out of the
way I can come back to this.