[dpdk-dev] rte_ether: Driver-specific stats getting overwritten

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-07-14 14:29, Remy Horton:
> 'noon,
> 
> In rte_eth_stats_get() after doing the driver callout to populate struct 
> rte_eth_stats, the rx_nombuf member is overwritten with 
> dev->data->rx_mbuf_alloc_failed even though some drivers will have 
> filled rx_nombuf with a value from elsewhere. This makes assignment of 
> rx_nombuf from within the driver callout redundant. Is this intentional?

Yes it is strange and has always been like that.
Why not moving the assignment before calling the driver callback?