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SubjectRe: VDPA Debug/Statistics
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
>
> 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?

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