Re: [PATCH net-next 03/21] ethtool, stats: introduce standard XDP statistics

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu,  5 Aug 2021 13:18:26 +0200 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>  - encourage driver developers to use this new API when they want to
>    provide any XDP stats, not the Ethtool stats which are already
>    overburdened and mix HW, SW and whatnot in most of the complex
>    drivers.

On the question of adding the stats in general I'd still ask for 
(a) performance analysis or (b) to start with just the exception 
stats which I'd think should be uncontroversial.