Hi Remy, > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Remy Horton > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 2:15 AM > > > On 29/06/2016 17:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > [..] > > I don't think it is possible to standardize stats ids, for two reasons: > > - it is hard to maintain and avoid conflicts between drivers > > - the drivers would have to lookup the names which degrades > > performance > > I designed it that way to keep flexibility down the line rather than > specifically > for the above use-case. > > > > I think the idea of Olivier would improve the performance of stats > > retrieval, > > which was the idea of this rework :) > > Unfortunately we need someone available to fix it quickly for RC2. > > For all the current drivers xstats_names[idx].id==idx so it would just > involve removing the references to the id field and updating the > documentation. Complication is coordinating with QLogic for the bnx2x & > qede xstats patches.
We could incorporate this change in our re-submission. > ..Remy
