Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:14:21 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/5] normalize calculations of rx_dropped |
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:53:31PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> For e.g. e1000, are we sure that packets dropped by hardware are > accounted elsewhere?
The e100 and tg3 patches move the count of those frames to rx_missed_errors. e1000 and ixgb were already counting them there in addition to rx_discards, so they were simply removed from rx_discards. 3c59x was counting other errors in rx_discards, so they were removed from that count.
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