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This method can be implemented by a poll mode driver to provide non-standard statistics (which are not part of the generic statistics structure). Each statistic is returned in a generic form: "name" and "value" and can be used to dump PMD-specific statistics in the same way than ethtool in linux kernel. If the PMD does not provide the xstats_get and xstats_set functions, the ethdev API will return the generic statistics in the xstats format (name, value). This commit opens the door for a clean-up of the generic statistics structure, only keeping statistics that are really common to all PMDs and moving specific ones into the xstats API. Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> [Thomas: fix some comments] Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>