netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 01/23] net: Introduce direct data placement tcp offload

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:47:44 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Shai Malin <smalin@...dia.com>
Cc:     Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...dia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/23] net: Introduce direct data placement tcp
 offload

On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:13:19 +0000 Shai Malin wrote:
> > Then there are stats.  
> 
> In the patch "net/mlx5e: NVMEoTCP, statistics" we introduced 
> rx_nvmeotcp_* stats.
> We believe it should be collected by the device driver and not 
> by the ULP layer.

I'm not sure I agree, but that's not the key point.
The key point is that we want the stats to come via a protocol specific
interface, and not have to be fished out of the ethtool -S goop. You
can still collect them in the driver, if we have any ULP-level stats at
any point we can add them to the same interface.