On 04/11/2018 04:47 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > > Well if we allow devices to access HW counters via FW command > interfaces in ndo_get_stats and by testing mlx5 where we query up to 5 > hw registers, it could take 100us, still this is way smaller than 10sec > :) and it is really a nice rate to fetch HW stats on demand.
If hardware stats are slower than software ones, maybe it is time to use software stats, instead of changing the whole stack ? There are very few devices drivers having issues like that.
