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.