What are Intel i40e "veb" stats in "ethtool -S" statistics?

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Issue

  • What are Intel i40e "veb" stats in ethtool -S statistics?
  • Intel XL710 or similar NIC shows veb stats such as:
    ethX  veb.rx_discards: 1250793260966464
          veb.tx_discards: 300385717780737
          veb.tx_errors: 18446639869925569536

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Intel NIC using i40e driver
  • ethtool -S command to display network driver counters

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