On 2020/8/11 ??7:58, Eli Cohen wrote:> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:26:20AM +0000, Eli Cohen wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Currently, the only statistics we get for a VDPA instance comes from
the virtio_net device instance. Since VDPA involves hardware acceleration, there
can be quite a lot of information that can be fetched from the underlying
device. Currently there is no generic method to fetch this information.
>>
>> One way of doing this can be to create a the host, a net device for
>> each VDPA instance, and use it to get this information or do some
>> configuration. Ethtool can be used in such a case
The problems are:
- vDPA is not net specific
- vDPA should be transparent to host networking stack
>>
>> I would like to hear what you think about this or maybe you have some
other ideas to address this topic.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eli
> Something I'm not sure I understand is how are vdpa instances created
on mellanox cards? There's a devlink command for that, is that right?
> Can that be extended for stats?
>
> Currently any VF will be probed as VDPA device. We're adding devlink
support but I am not sure if devlink is suitable for displaying statistics. We
will discuss internally but I wanted to know why you guys think.
I agree with Michael, if it's possible, integrating stats with devlink
should be the best. Having another interface with is just for stats
looks not good.
Thanks
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