On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 13:09:16 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote: > >> We already expose the stats of the main pool in ethtool. > >> So it will be an inconvenience to keep exposing half of the stats. > >> So either we delete both or keep both. Some of us rely on this for > >> debug > >> > > > > What is the conclusion here? > > Do we keep this patch, to have all the stats in the same place? > > Or do we remove it, and then half of the stats will be accessible > > through both ethtool and netlink, and the other half only via netlink? Unfortunately by that logic we would never be able to move away from deprecated APIs. > IIRC, the netlink API shows only the overall/sum, right? Wrong. > ethtool stats show you per-ring numbers, this is very helpful for system > monitoring and perf debug.
