netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: Flow control frames recorded as dropped packets

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:10:50 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Flow control frames recorded as dropped packets

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:56:09 -0500
Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com> wrote:

> When a flow control packet is received, sky2_receive resubmits the i/o. 
> Upon exit, sky2_status_intr counts these as dropped packets.
> 
> This fix just skips the rx_dropped accounting in this one case. It 
> didn't seem worthwhile to change sky2_receive to deal differently.
> 
> This is my first patch submission - comments more than welcome.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c
> index 95fd10f..bcb035c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
> @@ -2525,7 +2517,8 @@ static int sky2_status_intr(struct sky2_hw *hw, 
> int to_do, u16 idx)
>                          total_bytes[port] += length;
>                          skb = sky2_receive(dev, length, status);
>                          if (unlikely(!skb)) {
> -                               dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
> +                               if (!(status & GMR_FS_GOOD_FC) )
> +                                       dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
>                                  break;
>                          }
> 

Since FC should be absorbed by MAC, it would be better to never receive
send them up stream. I'll make a patch for that
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