From: Auke Kok Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:10:41 +0000 (-0800) Subject: ixgb: add RNBC counter - no buffer count - to ethtool stats X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc4~148^2~41^2~6 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ac0b3509f048b34ba1b60f164fd811b7cbdbc27a;p=linux-2.6 ixgb: add RNBC counter - no buffer count - to ethtool stats This counter is valuable to determine if the system is unable to timely return buffers to the hardware and this counter starts to increase well before the hardware starts to drop packets. If users experience rx_no_buffer_count increasing, they should increase the amount of descriptors. That will provide more buffers for the hardware and will decrease the chance of hard drops. Signed-off-by: Auke Kok Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c index 53a9fd086f..75f3a68ee3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static struct ixgb_stats ixgb_gstrings_stats[] = { {"rx_over_errors", IXGB_STAT(net_stats.rx_over_errors)}, {"rx_crc_errors", IXGB_STAT(net_stats.rx_crc_errors)}, {"rx_frame_errors", IXGB_STAT(net_stats.rx_frame_errors)}, + {"rx_no_buffer_count", IXGB_STAT(stats.rnbc)}, {"rx_fifo_errors", IXGB_STAT(net_stats.rx_fifo_errors)}, {"rx_missed_errors", IXGB_STAT(net_stats.rx_missed_errors)}, {"tx_aborted_errors", IXGB_STAT(net_stats.tx_aborted_errors)},