linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: add SNMP counter for the number of packets pruned from ofo queue

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:55:20 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: add SNMP counter for the number of packets
 pruned from ofo queue



On 07/25/2018 06:40 AM, Yafang Shao wrote:

> 
> Because we want to know why packets were dropped.
> If that could be show in netstat, we could easily find that it is
> dropped due to ofo prune.


We have a counter already for these events : LINUX_MIB_OFOPRUNED

You want to add another counter tracking number of _skbs_,
which has no precise value for user,
given each skb can contain a variable number of _packets_.