Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/3] net/mlx4: Track RX allocation failures in a stat

[Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 09:26:25PM +0000, Joe Damato wrote:
> mlx4_en_alloc_frags currently returns -ENOMEM when mlx4_alloc_page
> fails but does not increment a stat field when this occurs.
> 
> struct mlx4_en_rx_ring has a dropped field which is tabulated in
> mlx4_en_DUMP_ETH_STATS, but never incremented by the driver.
> 
> This change modifies mlx4_en_alloc_frags to increment mlx4_en_rx_ring's
> dropped field for the -ENOMEM case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
> Tested-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> index 8328df8645d5..573ae10300c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> @@ -82,8 +82,10 @@ static int mlx4_en_alloc_frags(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < priv->num_frags; i++, frags++) {
>  		if (!frags->page) {
> -			if (mlx4_alloc_page(priv, frags, gfp))
> +			if (mlx4_alloc_page(priv, frags, gfp)) {
> +				ring->dropped++;
>  				return -ENOMEM;
> +			}

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ring->dropped is added to rx_dropped stats in 
mlx4_en_DUMP_ETH_STATS(). You have already established with Jakub that 
allocation error does not mean dropped packet, but the counter contributes to 
dropped packets stats.

Also, I do not think that using a `dropped` counter for something that does not 
neccessarily result in a dropped packet is plain confusing.

>  			ring->rx_alloc_pages++;
>  		}
>  		rx_desc->data[i].addr = cpu_to_be64(frags->dma +
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
>