On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:27:31 +0200 Vladimir Oltean wrote: > > Note that I said _forwarded_. Frames are either forwarded by the HW or > > SW (former never hit the CPU, while the latter do hit the CPU or > > originate from it). > > Ah, you were just thinking out loud, I really did not understand what > you meant by the separation between "forwarded in software" and > "forwarded in hardware". > Yes, the hardware typically only gives us MAC-level counters anyway. > Another way to look at it is that the number of packets forwarded in > hardware from a given port are equal to the total number of RX packets > on that MAC minus the packets seen by the CPU coming from that port. > So all in all, it's the MAC-level counters we should expose in > .ndo_get_stats64, I'm glad you agree. As for the error packets, I > suppose that would be a driver-specific aggregate.
Yup, sorry about the confusion, I was only working on those stats with SDN/OvS/tc hardware, which explains the slight difference in terminology.
