[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/11] Port XStats

[Stephen Hemminger]

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.