From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: add a new xmit_more counter Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141004.200448.76860712037875110.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1412262270.16704.103.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <1412263461.16704.107.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amirv@mellanox.com, brouer@redhat.com, therbert@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hannes@stressinduktion.org, fw@strlen.de, dborkman@redhat.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, alexander.duyck@gmail.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com, dave.taht@gmail.com, toke@toke.dk To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:43957 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751033AbaJEAEv (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2014 20:04:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1412263461.16704.107.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:24:21 -0700 > From: Eric Dumazet > > ethtool -S reports a new counter, tracking number of time doorbell > was not triggered, because skb->xmit_more was set. > > $ ethtool -S eth0 | egrep "tx_packet|xmit_more" > tx_packets: 2413288400 > xmit_more: 666121277 > > I merged the tso_packet false sharing avoidance in this patch as well. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied, thanks Eric.