On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com> wrote: > > 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?
Good point, I agree switching to netdev stats and vport stats are better. > > Jarno > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
