Re: RE: [PATCH v13] virtio-net: support device stats

[Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 04:32:22 +0000, Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2023 7:18 AM
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> > > why don't we have a config space field for supported types?
> > > more straight forward than complex rules...
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> > I am ok for adding a config space field.
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> During 1.3 we completed the discussion that any new config field addition must adhere to DMA interface and not a register.
> Multiple capabilities need this.
> So lets please work on that.

OK.


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> Counters needs to use the dma interface and it can wait one time to utilize the modern interface.
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> I have two proposals to for the dma interface and we should discuss that in separate thread to not mix the cvq parts of the stats.
> I will start the thread shortly and put pointer to this requirement of counters + many others that we are discussing including ntuple.


I will keep pushing this, if your proposals affect this, I will fix it in
a furture version.

Thanks.


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