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
