--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Question on net_stats->rx_dropped  setting to "0"
> To: "Filo FeFi" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 9:15 PM
> Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 19:19 -0700,
> Filo FeFi a écrit :
> > Dear ixgbe developers:
> > 
> > I'm debugging a problem where some frames get dropped
> by the ixgbe
> > driver (version 2.0.44-k2), i.e. /proc/net/dev "drop"
> is not 0.
> > 
> > Reading the ixgbe-3.3.9/2.0.44.13/2.0.44.14 source, I
> see the line
> > (in ixgbe_main.c ixgbe_update_stats()):
> "net_stats->rx_dropped = 0;" 
> > 
> > So, does this mean that ixgbe always reports "0" for
> RX dropped?
> > 
> > Under what circumstances would /proc/net/dev's drop
> count for ixgbe
> > be incremented/changed from "0"?
> > 
> 
> What is your kernel version ?
> 

My kernel version is 2.6.18 PAE
Thanks,
Ching

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