On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:35:09 +0000 Tom Crugnale <tcrugnale at sandvine.com> wrote:
> Hi Harry, > > We are planning on using the xstats API for periodic stats collection through > a polling thread. This would be done in a generic NIC agnostic manner, which > would require that the xstats identifiers have consistent naming amongst all > of the NIC types. It would likely be polled several times per second and > would only gather a subset of all available xstats types. > > I have reviewed your patches and am interested in providing some API > enhancements and bugfixes. Are you willing to provide feedback on such > changes? > > Thank you, > Tom The whole point of xstats is to allow device specific statistics. Consistent use of names is good from a user interface point of view, but probably not a hard requirement.
