netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, hayeswang@realtek.com,
	mario_limonciello@dell.com
Subject: Re: [Patch RFC net-next] net: usb: r8152: Fix rx_bytes/tx_bytes to include FCS
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 19:33:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518173339.GF707@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b020ca48-d19a-9281-ee8a-d29038ee2b96@gmail.com>

Hi Florian

I agree we should define this, and we can add it to
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-statistics

> - BQL cares about bytes sent on the wire, so that should not include
> pre/appended descriptors nor the FCS (nor the Ethernet preamble),
> tx_bytes should be equivalent to that

Can you point me at some documentation/code which shows this?

pre/appended descriptors i can understand, since it does not make it
to the wire. FCS does. Preamble and inter-frame gap also does make it
to the wire, and contributes to the overall load on the medium. But i
would expect BQL is tolerant to this. We are talking about an error of
about 0.26% for a full MTU frame if FCS is included when it should not
be.

If BQL really does care about not including the FCS, we probably have
a lot less to do. People should of audited their code when they added
support for BQL :-)

    Andrew

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-18 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17 20:23 [Patch RFC net-next] net: usb: r8152: Fix rx_bytes/tx_bytes to include FCS Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17 22:28 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-18 15:09   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-18 15:22     ` David Miller
2017-05-18 17:00       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-18 17:33         ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20170518173339.GF707@lunn.ch \
    --to=andrew@lunn.ch \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=f.fainelli@gmail.com \
    --cc=hayeswang@realtek.com \
    --cc=mario_limonciello@dell.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).