Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932152AbVILSxg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:53:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932150AbVILSxg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:53:36 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:8096 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932145AbVILSxf (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:53:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4325CEAB.2050600@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:53:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, john.ronciak@intel.com, ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com, cramerj@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, ayyappan.veeraiyan@intel.com, mchan@broadcom.com, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/5] normalize calculations of rx_dropped References: <09122005104858.332@bilbo.tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <09122005104858.332@bilbo.tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 20 John W. Linville wrote: > Some fixes to normalize how rx_dropped is calculated. This is the > product of a discussion on netdev on or about 18 August 2005 w/ > the subject '[RFC] stats: how to count "good" packets dropped by > hardware?' > > Patches for 3c59x, e1000, e100, ixgb, and tg3 to follow. For e.g. e1000, are we sure that packets dropped by hardware are accounted elsewhere? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/