Hi Don,

Could you please elaborate a little on the dev_forward_skb() ?
Where can I find that function?

I was about to conclude that ixgbe always report "0" for RX drop,
but I would like to know the correct answer.

Thanks,
Ching

--- On Mon, 5/23/11, Skidmore, Donald C <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Skidmore, Donald C <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Question on net_stats->rx_dropped  setting to "0"
> To: "Filo FeFi" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, May 23, 2011, 5:55 PM
> Hi Ching,
> 
> As you noted we (ixgbe) doesn't modify this value, other
> than initialing it to zero.  However elsewhere in the
> stack it is modified. One example being dev_forward_skb().
> So ixgbe devices may report rx_dropped as something other
> than "0".
> 
> Thanks,
> -Don
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Filo FeFi [mailto:[email protected]]
> >Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:19 PM
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: [E1000-devel] Question on
> net_stats->rx_dropped setting to "0"
> >
> >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"?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Ching Tai
> >(650) 506-1454
> >
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