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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/21] ethtool, stats: introduce standard XDP statistics
Date:   Fri,  5 Nov 2021 17:44:53 +0100
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From: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:23:23 +0200

> From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:57:22 -0700
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
> > XDP is going to always be eBPF based ! why not just report such stats
> > to a special BPF_MAP ? BPF stack can collect the stats from the driver
> > and report them to this special MAP upon user request.
> 
> I really dig this idea now. How do you see it?
> <ifindex:channel:stat_id> as a key and its value as a value or ...?

Ideas, suggestions, anyone?

> [ snip ]
> 
> Thanks,
> Al

Thanks,
Al