From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Marco Berizzi <pupilla@hotmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rx_dropped packets stop with tcpdump running
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:28:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334842088.2395.178.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334841865.2395.177.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 15:24 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> When linux receives a packet with no protocol handler, we increment the
> rx_dropped counter.
>
> When you start a tcpdump, all packets are handled, so we dont increment
> rx_dropped for this reason anymore.
>
>
Its done since 2.6.37 (commit caf586e5)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 13:12 rx_dropped packets stop with tcpdump running Marco Berizzi
2012-04-19 13:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-19 13:28 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-04-19 17:57 ` Dave, Tushar N
2012-04-20 8:34 ` Marco Berizzi
2012-04-20 14:59 ` Brian Haley
2012-04-20 15:25 ` Marco Berizzi
2012-04-22 5:13 ` Bill Fink
2012-04-25 18:19 ` Dave, Tushar N
2012-05-03 11:08 ` Marco Berizzi
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