The generic statistics structure is getting bigger as new statistics are added in specific devices. For instance, fdir, tx_pause or loopback stats do not apply on virtual devices. It won't be possible to add every specific statistics in this generic stats structure, but on the other hand these specific statistics are useful for debugging purpose.
This 2 patches introduces xstats_get() and xstats_reset() in dev_ops. When registered by a device, it can be used to provide arbitrary statistics that are identified by a name, as done by eththool in kernel. After that, some statistics could be moved from the generic structure to this new framework, but it will be part of another patch series as it should be discussed first. Olivier Matz (2): ethdev: add a new rte_eth_xstats_get method to retrieve extended statistics testpmd: add a new command to get the extended statistics of a port app/test-pmd/cmdline.c | 22 +++++-- app/test-pmd/config.c | 34 +++++++++++ app/test-pmd/testpmd.h | 2 + lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 60 +++++++++++++++++- 5 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.0.1