Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] ethdev: remove queue stats from ethdev stats structure

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Fri,  3 Oct 2025 12:01:57 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> The queue stats part of the rte_eth_stats structure has been deprecated
> for many years now, since 2020 [1]. Therefore we look to remove these
> fields from the stats structure.
> 
> Unfortunately, the flag introduced by the deprecation,
> "RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS", means that for drivers using it we
> still have to return queue stats from the driver stats_get function.
> This means that we need a new parameter for those stats as part of the
> stats_get interface. The autofill flag is set for 35 drivers, which
> means that if we didn't do so, users of those 35 drivers would lose all
> ability to get per-queue stats.
> 
> [1] Commit a72cb3e7656a ("doc: announce queue stats moving to xstats")
> 	https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/commit/a72cb3e
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---

This patch needs to be merged with next patch because each commit
must build cleanly. Committing something that doesn't build will break
future bisection.