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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:46:02 -0600
From:      Manish Vachharajani <manishv@lineratesystems.com>
To:        Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dropped vs. missed packets in the ixgbe driver
Message-ID:  <5bc218350908191146j2a22f8dcrdecb0b67eedce5c2@mail.gmail.com>
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Agreed, the errors are reported but missed packets are not.  The
question is, is the correct fix to just add stats.mpc[0] to if_ierrors
in that line or to add it to if_iqdrops.  The fix is easy once we
agree on what the correct behavior is.

Manish

> Barney wrote:
>
> if you look in ixgbe_update_stats_counters at the bottom:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ifp->if_ierrors =3D missed_rx + adapter->stats.crcerrs +
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0adapter->stats.rlec;
>
> the errors are added in.
>
> BC

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Manish Vachharajani
Founder
LineRate Systems
manishv@lineratesystems.com
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