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From: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 03/12] be2net: add a description for counter rx_input_fifo_overflow_drop
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:54:15 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409552664-15990-4-git-send-email-sathya.perla@emulex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409552664-15990-1-git-send-email-sathya.perla@emulex.com>


Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c
index 0cd3311..d8d7a4a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ static const struct be_ethtool_stat et_stats[] = {
 	 * fifo must never overflow.
 	 */
 	{DRVSTAT_INFO(rxpp_fifo_overflow_drop)},
+	/* Received packets dropped when the RX block runs out of space in
+	 * one of its input FIFOs. This could happen due a long burst of
+	 * minimum-sized (64b) frames in the receive path.
+	 * This counter may also be erroneously incremented rarely.
+	 */
 	{DRVSTAT_INFO(rx_input_fifo_overflow_drop)},
 	{DRVSTAT_INFO(rx_ip_checksum_errs)},
 	{DRVSTAT_INFO(rx_tcp_checksum_errs)},
-- 
1.7.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01  6:24 [PATCH net-next 00/12] be2net: patch set Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 01/12] be2net: add a few log messages Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 02/12] be2net: shorten AMAP_GET/SET_BITS() macro calls Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` Sathya Perla [this message]
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 04/12] be2net: Add TX completion error statistics in ethtool Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 05/12] be2net: Add a dma_mapping_error counter " Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 06/12] be2net: fix log messages in lancer FW download path Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 07/12] be2net: remove unncessary gotos Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 08/12] be2net: define BE_MAX_MTU Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 09/12] be2net: make be_cmd_get_regs() return a status Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 10/12] be2net: get rid of TX budget Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 11/12] be2net: define macro for_all_tx_queues_on_eq() Sathya Perla
2014-09-01  6:24 ` [PATCH net-next 12/12] be2net: query max_tx_qs for BE3 super-nic profile from FW Sathya Perla
2014-09-01 13:10   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-09-02  4:08     ` Sathya Perla
2014-09-04 19:28       ` Jiri Pirko

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