Hi,

@Ben : Thanks for the response.

@Ilya, @Ian : Can you please review the patch and provide comments if any.

Thanks,
Sriram.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> 
Sent: 22 July 2019 21:37
To: Sriram Vatala <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Detailed packet drop statistics per dpdk and
vhostuser ports

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.
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