| Message ID | 20201231033753.1568393-1-kuba@kernel.org (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [net] net: suggest L2 discards be counted towards rx_dropped | expand |
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| netdev/cover_letter | success | Link |
| netdev/fixes_present | fail | Series targets non-next tree, but doesn't contain any Fixes tags |
| netdev/patch_count | success | Link |
| netdev/tree_selection | success | Clearly marked for net |
| netdev/subject_prefix | success | Link |
| netdev/cc_maintainers | success | CCed 3 of 3 maintainers |
| netdev/source_inline | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/verify_signedoff | success | Link |
| netdev/module_param | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/build_32bit | success | Errors and warnings before: 7200 this patch: 7200 |
| netdev/kdoc | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/verify_fixes | success | Link |
| netdev/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 11 lines checked |
| netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn | success | Errors and warnings before: 7605 this patch: 7605 |
| netdev/header_inline | success | Link |
| netdev/stable | success | Stable not CCed |
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:37:53 -0800 > From the existing definitions it's unclear which stat to > use to report filtering based on L2 dst addr in old > broadcast-medium Ethernet. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Applied.
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h index 874cc12a34d9..82708c6db432 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h @@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ struct rtnl_link_stats { * * @rx_dropped: Number of packets received but not processed, * e.g. due to lack of resources or unsupported protocol. - * For hardware interfaces this counter should not include packets - * dropped by the device which are counted separately in + * For hardware interfaces this counter may include packets discarded + * due to L2 address filtering but should not include packets dropped + * by the device due to buffer exhaustion which are counted separately in * @rx_missed_errors (since procfs folds those two counters together). * * @tx_dropped: Number of packets dropped on their way to transmission,
From the existing definitions it's unclear which stat to use to report filtering based on L2 dst addr in old broadcast-medium Ethernet. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> --- include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)