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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bne2 rx packet drop?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:47:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280965623.7554.33.camel@HP1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008050859.57659.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 16:29 -0700, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Michael (and netdev!)
> 
>    I've got a customer seeing ~1000 rx packets dropped per day (on a busy
> interface, bonding) via 'netstat -ni' RX-DRP's field across their 4-node
> cluster.  The code seems to put checksum_discard and mac_discard into
> that counter, so I'm not sure what the root cause is.
> 
> Any hints?  What are the conditions which cause mac_discard?
> 

Please ask the customer for ethtool -S ethx.  It has a number of
different counters for rx dropped packets so we can get a better idea of
what's happening.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04 23:29 bne2 rx packet drop? Rusty Russell
2010-08-04 23:47 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2010-08-19  2:35   ` Rusty Russell
2010-08-05  0:08 ` Rusty Russell

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