Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:15:13 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/core: Export dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc sets |
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:20:16 +0800 Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev> wrote:
> Although there is a kfree_skb_reason() helper function that can be > used to find the reason for dropped packets, but most callers didn't > increase one of rx_dropped, tx_dropped, rx_nohandler and > rx_otherhost_dropped. > > For the users, people are more concerned about why the dropped in > ifconfig is increasing. So we can export > dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc sets, which users would trace them know > why rx_dropped is increasing.
ifconfig has been frozen for over 10 years, and is deprecated so there is no point in catering to legacy api's. There are better API's such as ethtool and netlink that can provide more info.
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