RE: [virtio-comment] RE: RE: [PATCH v15] virtio-net: support device stats

[Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>]

> From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 12:48 PM
> 
> For this line:
>  "If the reply header structure and actual stats are split properly, it will be easy
>   to add the query by the owner device."
> 
> So for the header structure, is there some specific requirements?

TLV type, length, is only two fields needed and to align to 64-bit.
struct virtio_element_type {
	u16 type;
	u16 rsvd;
	u32 length;
};

Above generic type if defined, that we can possibly use across many virtio devices.