On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:14:14 -0700 Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com> wrote:
> Maybe it's just that I've been doing this too long, but I regularly > (and many other customers/users do as well) depend on the ethtool stats > being atomically updated w.r.t. each other. This means that if I'm > getting the over rx_packets, as well as the per-queue rx_packets, and I > read them all at once from the driver with ethtool, then I can check > that things are working as expected. Any application depending on this behavior is really fragile. It is unportable to other devices (which I guess is to Intel's benefit) and relying on guarantees not provided by current Linux network devices.
