From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/5] normalize calculations of rx_dropped
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:50:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510252150.07933.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435D8717.9000107@candelatech.com>
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On Tuesday 25 October 2005 03:15, Ben Greear wrote:
> rx_errors: Total of all rx errors
If it is a total, then we don't need to store it, since we can calculate
that explicity on request, no?
> rx_dropped: Dropped on receive, usually due to kernel being over-worked.
> rx_length: Dropped because pkt-length was invalid.
> rx_over: Dropped because we over-ran the NIC's rx buffers.
> rx_crc: Packets received with bad CRC errors.
> rx_frame: Framing errors (errors at the physical layer), usually cable or hardware error.
> rx_fifo: Dropped due to Kernel buffers being full (I guess rx-over could be NIC only, rx-fifo be kernel/driver only.)
> rx_missed: Dropped due to not handling IRQ in time.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-09-12 14:48 ` [patch 2.6.13 0/5] normalize calculations of rx_dropped John W. Linville
2005-09-12 14:48 ` [patch 2.6.13 1/5] 3c59x: correct rx_dropped counting John W. Linville
2005-09-12 14:48 ` [patch 2.6.13 2/5] e1000: " John W. Linville
2005-09-12 14:48 ` [patch 2.6.13 3/5] e100: correct rx_dropped and add rx_missed_errors John W. Linville
2005-09-12 14:49 ` [patch 2.6.13 4/5] ixgb: correct rx_dropped counting John W. Linville
2005-09-12 14:49 ` [patch 2.6.13 5/5] tg3: correct rx_dropped and add rx_missed_errors John W. Linville
2005-09-12 18:53 ` [patch 2.6.13 0/5] normalize calculations of rx_dropped Jeff Garzik
2005-09-12 19:14 ` John W. Linville
2005-10-24 21:35 ` Ben Greear
2005-10-24 21:57 ` John W. Linville
2005-10-25 1:15 ` Ben Greear
2005-10-25 1:42 ` jamal
2005-10-25 19:50 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
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