[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: distinguish between drop and error stats

2015-10-08 Thread Tahhan, Maryam
and the generated DPDK docs. Best Regards, Maryam From: Jay Rolette [mailto:role...@infiniteio.com] Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 2:25 PM To: Tahhan, Maryam Cc: DPDK Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: distinguish between drop and error stats Can you improve the comments on these counters? If you didn't

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: distinguish between drop and error stats

2015-10-08 Thread Jay Rolette
2, 2015 2:25 PM > *To:* Tahhan, Maryam > *Cc:* DPDK > *Subject:* Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: distinguish between drop and > error stats > > > > Can you improve the comments on these counters? If you didn't happen to > follow this thread, there's no way to reasonably fig

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: distinguish between drop and error stats

2015-10-02 Thread Maryam Tahhan
Make a distniction between dropped packets and error statistics to allow a higher level fault management entity to interact with DPDK and take appropriate measures when errors are detected. It will also provide valuable information for any applications that collects/extracts DPDK stats, such

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: distinguish between drop and error stats

2015-10-02 Thread Jay Rolette
Can you improve the comments on these counters? If you didn't happen to follow this thread, there's no way to reasonably figure out what the difference is from looking at the code without chasing it all the way down and cross-referencing the NIC datasheet. Thanks, Jay On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:47