On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote: > Currently physical ports stats are collected from kernel datapath. > However, those counter do not reflect actual wire packet counters > when LSO or TSO are enabled by the NIC. In the meantime, the stats > collected form routing stack does. While both stats are valid, Reporting > netlink stats for packet counts and byte counts make it easier > to correlate those numbers with external measurements.
I find the term “netlink stats” confusing, as both port and “netlink” stats are collected via netlink. Also, the stats are not about the netlink itself, so I’d avoid using this term. The comments in code also refer to “ioctl”, which is equally wrong, I think. Would “netdev stats” vs. “vport stats” be a more accurate way of referring to these? Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
