netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 03/21] ethtool, stats: introduce standard XDP statistics

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Date:   Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:23:23 +0200
From:   Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/21] ethtool, stats: introduce standard XDP statistics

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:57:22 -0700

[ snip ]

> XDP is going to always be eBPF based ! why not just report such stats
> to a special BPF_MAP ? BPF stack can collect the stats from the driver
> and report them to this special MAP upon user request.

I really dig this idea now. How do you see it?
<ifindex:channel:stat_id> as a key and its value as a value or ...?

[ snip ]

Thanks,
Al