On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:31:53PM +0530, Sriram Vatala wrote: > OVS may be unable to transmit packets for multiple reasons and > today there is a single counter to track packets dropped due to > any of those reasons. The most common reason is that a VM is > unable to read packets fast enough causing the vhostuser port > transmit queue on the OVS side to become full. This manifests > as a problem with VNFs not receiving all packets. Having a > separate drop counter to track packets dropped because the > transmit queue is full will clearly indicate that the problem > is on the VM side and not in OVS. Similarly maintaining separate > counters for all possible drops helps in indicating sensible > cause for packet drops. > > This patch adds counters for custom stats to track packets dropped > at port level and these stats are displayed along with > other stats in "ovs-vsctl get interface <iface> statistics" > command. The detailed stats will be available for both dpdk and > vhostuser ports. > > Signed-off-by: Sriram Vatala <[email protected]>
Thanks for the revision! I'm happy with the bits that are important to me. I'll leave the final review to Ian or Ilya. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
