From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:47:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4683ADFC.4020000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46829C48.6080005@hp.com>
Rick Jones wrote:
> It seems that every driver, when providing support for ethtool -S
> functionality, has considerable lattitude when it comes to the stats
> provided. Clearly this is very nice for the driver writer(s) as it
> allows them to provide whatever stats they feel are most "natural" for
> their NIC(s) and name them as they see fit.
This is deliberate. Ethtool operates at a very primitive level, and generally
does little or no translation between the hardware registers and userspace.
> However :)
>
> From the standpoint of someone looking from the outside, say someone
> wanting to consume ethtool -S statistics, it seems to be a big jumble.
>
> Might there be a way to bring those two camps together? Is there
> already, with the same wide availabilty of ethtool, and I've just not
> seen it?
ifconfig comes to mind, for one. What statistics are you looking for exactly?
-- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 17:20 a maze of twisty stats, most different Rick Jones
2007-06-28 12:47 ` Chris Snook [this message]
2007-06-28 17:34 ` Rick Jones
2007-06-28 18:17 ` David Stevens
2007-06-28 20:36 ` David Miller
2007-06-28 21:21 ` Rick Jones
2007-06-29 17:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-29 18:21 ` David Stevens
2007-06-29 19:37 ` Andi Kleen
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