[libvirt] Support interface network stats for SR-IOV in Switchdev mode(VF representors)

[Jai Singh Rana]

Thanks Daniel for the feedback.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:02:59PM +0530, Jai Singh Rana wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Currently libvirt does not support networks interface stats for
>> <interface type='hostdev'>.
>>
>> With availability of switchdev model in linux, it is possible to
>> capture stats for SR-IOV VFs on host using its VF representor
>> interface on host for nics supporting switchdev model.
>>
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
>>
>> I want to preapre a patch supporting this feature for hostdev and
>> write some function like
>> 'virHostdevSwitchdevVfRepresentorInterfaceStats' for returning stats.
>> Should I include this function and supporting methods in
>> src/util/virhostdev.c or should i include it in new file something
>> like src/util/virswitchdev.c .
>
> It is probably best as  src/util/virnetdevhostdev.c
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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