> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, December 5, 2025 8:05 PM
> To: Loktionov, Aleksandr <[email protected]>; Jesse
> Brandeburg <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: Nguyen, Anthony L <[email protected]>; Keller, Jacob E
> <[email protected]>; IWL <[email protected]>;
> Kitszel, Przemyslaw <[email protected]>; Andrew Lunn
> <[email protected]>; David S. Miller <[email protected]>; Eric
> Dumazet <[email protected]>; Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>;
> Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net v1] ice: stop counting UDP
> csum mismatch as rx_errors
> 
> On 12/5/25 12:26 AM, Loktionov, Aleksandr wrote:
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> >> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> >> index 86f5859e88ef..d004acfa0f36 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> >> @@ -6995,7 +6995,6 @@ void ice_update_vsi_stats(struct ice_vsi
> *vsi)
> >>            cur_ns->rx_errors = pf->stats.crc_errors +
> >>                                pf->stats.illegal_bytes +
> >>                                pf->stats.rx_undersize +
> >> -                              pf->hw_csum_rx_error +
> >
> > Good day , Jesse
> > It looks like you remove the single place where the '
> hw_csum_rx_error' var is being really used.
> > What about removing it's declaration and calculation then?
> 
> Hi Aleks! That's not true, however, as the stat is incremented in
> receive path and shown in ethtool -S. I think it is incredibly
> valuable to have in the ethtool stats that the hardware is "not
> offloading" a checksum. As well, all the other drivers in the high-
> speed Ethernet category have a similar counter.
> 
> I hope you'll agree it's still useful?

So, the hw_csum_rx_error still will be visible in rx_csum_bad.nic as 'private' 
ethtool statistics.
But I mean it will be not reflected in the standard 
"/sys/class/net/<if>/statistics".
What do you think about it? 

Reply via email to