On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:41:09PM +0100, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > > hi, > > > > drivers ex age alc ale jme se vic vte xe upl and octeon/cmac > > make use of the if_iqdrops counter that is not shown by any of our > > tools (like netstat). looks like most of its usage comes from > > freebsd where they show it in the "netstat -di" output in a new > > column. do we want to do that or just convert them to if_ierrors > > since 90% of our drivers do only if_ierrors. there's also doesn't > > seem to be any rule when to use if_iqdrops (well, since in most > > drivers there's no input queueing -- check out upl(4) :) > > > > the diff below changes all the drivers in our tree to use > > if_ierrors instead of if_iqdrops. i've decided to leave > > octeon/cmac driver as is because if_iqdrops is used for > > debugging purposes there. > > > > ack? nack? meh? > > Seems like a good idea to me to not lose those errors. I have > no great desire for a new column in netstat, but no great > antagonism to one either. >
I guess the idea is to show which interfaces are overloading the input queues. At least that is my interpretation of if_iqdrops (input queue drops). In a away it makes sense but I'm not to attached to it. I would prefer we would actually print out the output queue drops on the interface queue. -- :wq Claudio
