[dpdk-dev] Port stats zero when using MLX5 DPDK driver

[Shahaf Shuler]

--Shahaf


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:47 PM
To: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org; george.dit at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Port stats zero when using MLX5 DPDK driver

> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > It is not support on Mellanox PMD to read the primary process 
> > counters from a secondary process.

It is a pity that such a basic feature is not supported.
We should try to have this kind of feature better supported across every drivers.
[Shahaf Shuler] there is a patch we are pushing which will enable to read the xstats from a secondary process:
[PATCH] net/mlx5: support extended statistics


2017-01-10 08:43, Shahaf Shuler:
> supporting this functionality is not on the plans.

Please could you re-consider the plans? It should not be so difficult to give access to the stats from a secondary process.
[Shahaf Shuler] DPDK secondary process much conflict with Mellanox Arch. we will put this task on our plans.



Thanks


> If you wish to read statistics of a running process you can use ethtool –S <device_name>.
> It will provide you the statistics of the port.
> Note that those statistics count the number of bytes/packet which were 
> received/sent by the port. This number may not be equal to the number 
> of packet/bytes which were send/received on the PMD.