====== List of candidate work items for "SW Fastpath Service Quality Metrics" ======
This page lists the candidate work items for SW Fastpath Service Quality Metrics per DPDK release. The current targeted DPDK release is DPDK 2.2.

**Please note**: anything marked against **DPDK 2.2** will be included/targeting **OPNFV Release B**

===== DPDK Stats Extensions =====

  * **Deliverables**:
    * IXGBE error/extended stats Exposure
    * i40e error/extended stats Exposure
    * Sample App that retrieves stats on the Host
    * Sample App that retrieves stats on the Guest
    * Sample App that retrieves Host stats on the Host
  * **Description**: Development activity to support the exposure of NIC MAC/PHY Level Counters, particularly for packet drops and errors.
  * **Functional Requirements**:
    * Expose error/drop registers to DPDK Sample Apps
    * Expose VF including error/drop registers to DPDK Sample Apps
    * Extend Exposed registers to include those not in struct hw_stats 
    * Extend Exposed registers to include Sums that are not in struct hw_stats 
  * **Performance Requirements**: Does NOT impact performance.
  * **Targeted DPDK release**: DPDK 2.1 and DPDK 2.2 (November 30th 2015)
  * **Status**:

^ Feature                             ^ Expose error/drop registers  ^ Expose VF registers  ^  Expose additional registers ^ Expose totals registers  ^
| IXGBE                               | DPDK 2.1(DONE)               | DPDK 2.2             | DPDK 2.2                     | DPDK 2.2                 |
| i40e                                | DPDK 2.2                     | DPDK 2.2             | DPDK 2.2                     | DPDK 2.2                 |
| Sample App on Host/Guest            | DPDK 2.1(DONE)               |                  N/A | N/A                          | N/A                      |
| Sample App on Guest for Host stats  | N/A                          | N/A                  | N/A                          | N/A                      |



===== CollectD DPDK stats Plugin =====
  * **Deliverable**: CollectD Plugin for DPDK stats 
  * **Description**: CollectD Plugin that runs on the host and polls stats from DPDK
  * **Functional Requirements**:
    * Runs on the Guest/Host.
    * Collects PF/VF Stats.
  * **Performance Requirements**: Does NOT impact performance.
  * **Targeted DPDK release**: upstream to github by the end of October as there is no release cadence for CollectD.
  * **Status**:

===== FEATURE: DPDK KEEP ALIVE (KA) =====

  * **Deliverable**: DPDK Keep Alive Sample App on Guest (A simple forwarding app with DPDK KA functionality)
  * **Description**: Development activity to support detection of ‘failed’ DPDK cores and notification to a HA/SA middleware. The purpose is to detect Packet Processing Core fails (e.g. infinite loop) and ensure the failure of the core does not result in a fault that is not detectable by a management entity.
  * **Functional Requirements**:
    * Runs on the Guest.
    * Runs on the Host.
    * Configurable timeouts.
    * Measures detection time.
    * Has a hook function where HA/SA middleware can hook in for fault management notifications.
  * **Performance Requirements**: Does NOT impact performance.
  * **Targeted DPDK release**: DPDK 2.2 (November 30th 2015) 
  * **Status**: