netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] virtio_net: add the total stats field

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Message-ID: <Zd36oZMvIvqtNSzr@nanopsycho>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:07:13 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] virtio_net: add the total stats field

Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 03:54:24PM CET, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:03:02 +0800 Xuan Zhuo wrote:
>> Now, we just show the stats of every queue.
>> 
>> But for the user, the total values of every stat may are valuable.
>
>Please wait for this API to get merged:
>https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240226211015.1244807-1-kuba@kernel.org/
>A lot of the stats you're adding here can go into the new API.

Can. But does that mean that ethtool additions of things like this
will be rejected after that?


>More drivers can report things like number of LSO / GRO packets.
>