[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] drivers/net: add support for IF-MIB and EtherLike-MIB for e1000

[Pattan, Reshma]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:36 PM
> > For 2, does the "use existing methods" include calling xstats? If so,
> > then we can just drop the requirement for 2 to have any new functions
> > implemented in the driver. Instead, have the information provided by
> > drivers in the normal xstats call, but have a new ethdev API to
> > provide that information to the app - basically hiding the xstats
> > complexity underneath.
> 
> I was thinking another dev_ops similar to xstats, but re-using xstats can be
> better idea here.
> 
> so option 2 becomes:
> [2] An eth_dev API to use existing APIs to get information from PMDs and
> wrap MIBs related xstats calls.
> 

Instead of getting information/configuration related mib attributes  in xstats_get,  we should  have new eth_dev op to get  all those mib attributes which don’t have any ethdev API. 
Then the new eth_dev API can call this new eth_dev op and other existing ethdev APIs to gather all mib information and expose that to user.

Thanks,
Reshma