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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Qiming Chen <chenqiming_huawei@163.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/pcap: improve rx statistics
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:29:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210908202959.2099eb1e@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210909024531.10009-1-chenqiming_huawei@163.com>

On Thu,  9 Sep 2021 10:45:31 +0800
Qiming Chen <chenqiming_huawei@163.com> wrote:

> In the receiving direction, if alloc mbuf or jumbo process failed, there
> is no err_pkts count, which makes it difficult to locate the problem.
> Because alloc mbuf failed, the rx_nombuf field is counted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiming Chen <chenqiming_huawei@163.com>
> ---
> v2:
>   Clear coding style issues.
> v3:
>   1) Send direction does not release mbuf.
>   2) Failed to alloc mbuf is counted to the rx_nombuf field.

Looks good, the field "err_pkts" is a confusing name for me.

On Tx it means packets dropped because pcap_sendpacket() returned error.
Looking inside libpcap that means send() failed. On Linux this is
a send on a PF_PACKET socket and it appears to be a blocking socket().
So these errors are not transient conditions.

On Rx it means packets dropped because out of mbufs.

Perhaps a comment or renaming the field would helped.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26  3:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/pcap: improve rxtx statistics Qiming Chen
2021-08-26  3:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Qiming Chen
2021-09-08 12:29   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-09-09  2:45   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/pcap: improve rx statistics Qiming Chen
2021-09-09  3:29     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-09-09 10:20       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-09-09  4:16     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Qiming Chen
2021-09-09  8:05       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-09-09  8:23       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Qiming Chen
2021-09-09 10:20         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-09-09 12:28         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Qiming Chen
2021-09-09 14:45           ` Ferruh Yigit

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