[PATCH v7 01/23] net: Introduce direct data placement tcp offload

[Shai Malin]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 01:47, Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:13:19 +0000 Shai Malin wrote:
> > > Then there are stats.
> >
> > In the patch "net/mlx5e: NVMEoTCP, statistics" we introduced
> > rx_nvmeotcp_* stats.
> > We believe it should be collected by the device driver and not
> > by the ULP layer.
> 
> I'm not sure I agree, but that's not the key point.
> The key point is that we want the stats to come via a protocol specific
> interface, and not have to be fished out of the ethtool -S goop. You
> can still collect them in the driver, if we have any ULP-level stats at
> any point we can add them to the same interface.

Understood.
We will suggest a new design for the stats, together with the 
capabilities enablement.