[PATCH 5.10 126/161] net/mlx5e: Report rx_discards_phy via rx_dropped

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-04T14:49:28Z

From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit c9cfced17365b1df8c6ae6cd5db56aebd7ed9b57 ]

We noticed a high number of rx_discards_phy events on certain servers while
running `ethtool -S`. However, this critical counter is not currently
included in the standard /proc/net/dev statistics file, making it difficult
to monitor effectively—especially given the diversity of vendors across a
large fleet of servers.

Let's report it via the standard rx_dropped metric.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241210022706.6665-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 476681f10cc1 ("net/mlx5e: Account for netdev stats in ndo_get_stats64")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
index af98d9e59626d..36f5d5e449209 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -3696,6 +3696,7 @@ mlx5e_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
}

stats->rx_missed_errors = priv->stats.qcnt.rx_out_of_buffer;
+ stats->rx_dropped = PPORT_2863_GET(pstats, if_in_discards);

stats->rx_length_errors =
PPORT_802_3_GET(pstats, a_in_range_length_errors) +
--
2.51.0