On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:44:39 +0200 Nogah Frankel <nog...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Extended stats are part of the RTM_GETSTATS method. This patch adds them > to ifstat. > While extended stats can come in many forms, we support only the > rtnl_link_stats64 struct for them (which is the 64 bits version of struct > rtnl_link_stats). > We support stats in the main nesting level, or one lower. > The extension can be called by its name or any shorten of it. If there is > more than one matched, the first one will be picked. > > To get the extended stats the flag -x <stats type> is used. It would be better if this command used 64 bit statistics transparently like other tools in iproute2. Transparency is always better user experience.
