On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 03:21:20PM +0100, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:29:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> > im adding numbers to input and output qdrops in the kernel, so im
> > aware that they exist now. however, i don't really see these values
> > in userland. it seems netstat and systat think errors are more
> > important.
> > 
> > i tried adding qdrops to the ifstat view, but it got too cluttered.
> > so i made a new view called iqdrops that shows qdrops instead of
> > errors. i used iqdrops instead of ifqdrops so "if" on its own is
> > still not ambiguous.
> 
> Now ifstat and iqdrops show almost the same information.  Just two
> commns are different, eight culumns are redundant.  I think one
> page would be better.  Do we need DESC?  It takes a lot of space
> that could be used for output of dynamic counters.
> 

Would it make sense to extend the mbuf page instead? It has the ring size
and so it may make sense to show drops there.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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