RE: [PATCH 1/2] vdpa: Add support for querying statistics

[Parav Pandit via Virtualization]

> From: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 3:02 PM
> 
> > If we go with vendor stats, how can we communicate the information to
> > userspace? Currenlty we use netlink attributes defined to pass this
> > information.
> 
> It can be done exactly as what have been done in the patch, we can document
> it as vendor stats.
> 
Yes, attribute to have VENDOR_ prefix in it.
> 
> Ok, I think I get you. So I wonder if it's more useful to use device specific
> counters. For networking, it could be packets send/received etc.

Yes, I equally discussed this previously with Eli as its more meaningful for 
end users.
We just return the device id of it along with queue number that helps to show 
tx and rx.
For ctrl q, it is just ctrl commands and ctrl completions.
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