> -----Original Message-----
> From: Power, Ciara <ciara.po...@intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 9:33 AM
> To: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <tho...@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org; Van Haaren, Harry
> <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>; Laatz, Kevin <kevin.la...@intel.com>
> Cc: arybche...@solarflare.com; Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pat...@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] ethdev: fix xstat name of basic stats per queue
> 
> Hi Ferruh, Thomas,
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
> >Sent: Thursday 8 October 2020 16:42
> >To: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org; Van Haaren,
> >Harry <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>; Power, Ciara
> ><ciara.po...@intel.com>; Laatz, Kevin <kevin.la...@intel.com>
> >Cc: arybche...@solarflare.com
> >Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: fix xstat name of basic stats per queue
> >
> >On 10/7/2020 10:48 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >> As described in doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst,
> >> the naming scheme for the xstats is parts separated with underscore:
> >>    * direction
> >>    * detail 1
> >>    * detail 2
> >>    * detail n
> >>    * unit
> >> where detail 1 can be "q" followed with a queue number.
> >> It means the name of the stats per queue should be rx_qN_* or tx_qN_*.
> >>
> >> The second underscore was missing so far.
> >> Fixing the basic xstat names may be considered an API change, that's
> >> why it should not be backported.
> >>
> >> While fixing this mistake, some examples of the naming scheme are
> >> given as part of the API documentation of rte_eth_xstat_name.
> >> More proposals about standardizing statistics:
> >>
> >> http://fast.dpdk.org/events/slides/DPDK-2019-09-Ethernet_Statistics.p
> >> d
> >> f
> >>
> >> Fixes: bd6aa172cf35 ("ethdev: fetch extended statistics with integer
> >> ids")
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> >
> >no objection,
> >Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
> >
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 8 +++++++-
> >>   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c         | 4 ++--
> >>   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h         | 7 +++++++
> >>   3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
> >> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
> >> index cdf20404c9..d0d77c5d3d 100644
> >> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
> >> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
> >> @@ -200,7 +200,13 @@ API Changes
> >>
> >>   * ethdev: ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done()`` API has been deprecated.
> >>
> >> -* Renamed internal ethdev APIs:
> >> +* ethdev: Renamed basic statistics per queue. An underscore is
> >> +inserted
> >> +  between the queue number and the rest of the xstat name:
> >> +
> >> +  * ``rx_qN*`` -> ``rx_qN_*``
> >> +  * ``tx_qN*`` -> ``tx_qN_*``
> >> +
> >
> >As far as I remember collect plugin was using xstat output, does this
> >rename affects it? Or any other telemetry application relying on xstats.
> >
> >Harry, Ciara, Kevin, do you know anything that will be affected from rename?
> 
> I don't think this change will affect anything with telemetry itself, but I 
> am not
> so familiar with the CollectD plugin, Reshma may be able to verify that.

Neither collectd has any dependency on naming. 

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