From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: occasionally corrupted network stats in /proc/net/dev Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:12:59 +0100 Message-ID: <478BB43B.8060905@cosmosbay.com> References: <478B99E6.2050800@hp.com> <478BA53B.9060504@candelatech.com> <478BA8D7.8050803@hp.com> <478BAF47.10607@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Ben Greear , netdev@vger.kernel.org, mchan@broadcom.com To: Mark Seger Return-path: Received: from smtp2f.orange.fr ([80.12.242.151]:2136 "EHLO smtp2f.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750908AbYANTNU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:13:20 -0500 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2f12.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9572970001A3 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:13:18 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <478BAF47.10607@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark Seger a =E9crit : > Ignore that last one as it was pointed out to me that we have both ni= c=20 > installed on many of our systems and ethtool told me the one=20 > associated with the nic is actually the broadcom one. > > version: 1.4.38 E1B1EC867DEEB8027B2DA0F > license: GPL > description: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708 Driver > I remember some tg3 chips actually have bugs when reporting stats....=20 once in a while CCed to Michael Chan to get some details. > -mark > > Mark Seger wrote: >> I'll try to get data on the other systems reporting it and as I said= =20 >> it does not happen all that often AND you have to be looking for=20 >> it. The system I've personally seen it happen on several times is=20 >> running RHEL4/U4 which redhat numbers 2.6.9-42 and from modinfo I se= e: >> version: 7.0.33-k2-NAPI 51E97FEE51D0772AFC89130 >> description: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver >> >> -mark >> >> Ben Greear wrote: >>> Mark Seger wrote: >>>> I had posted the following on linux-net and haven't see any=20 >>>> responses possibly because nobody had any or that list is=20 >>>> obsolete. I have been told this is the current list for everythin= g=20 >>>> networking on linux so I thought I'd try again... >>> Do you see this with multiple network drivers, or just with one=20 >>> particular driver. If so, which one? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben >>> > > --=20 > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >