> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:59 PM
> 
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 19:47 +0000, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
> > > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:27 AM
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 20:55 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > > From: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]>
> [...]
> > > > +static struct i40e_stats i40e_gstrings_stats[] = {
> > > > +       I40E_PF_STAT("rx_bytes", stats.eth.rx_bytes),
> > > > +       I40E_PF_STAT("tx_bytes", stats.eth.tx_bytes),
> > > > +       I40E_PF_STAT("rx_errors", stats.eth.rx_errors),
> > > > +       I40E_PF_STAT("tx_errors", stats.eth.tx_errors),
> > >
> > > Duplicates.
> >
> > Well, not really are they duplicates - the NETDEV_STAT numbers are
> > specifically for each netdev that is attached to this device.  Because
> > the XL710 supports VMDq, SR-IOV, and some other device multiplexing
> > schemes, each netdev's NETDEV_STAT struct is the subset of the traffic
> > going through its portion of the device.
> >
> > The PF_STAT struct holds the stats for what actually goes through the
> > physical port.  This is not necessarily a summation of the various
> > NETDEV_STAT structs, because some connections may be talking to each
> > other and not out the physical port.
> >
> > When ethtool -S is called on the PF's netdev, we see both the netdev
> > and the ports stats printed.  When called on non-PF connection we only
> > see the netdev stats, none of the port stats.
> 
> Good point.  And this is something I've been meaning to bring up for
> discussion on netdev myself - we should have some naming convention to
> distinguish per-port and per-function/per-netdev statistics.

If you've got some ideas on a convention to use, we'd be happy to set the 
precedent.

sln

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