netdev - Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?

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Message-Id: <20090828.130426.180763121.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cl@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, sri@...ibm.com, dlstevens@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, niv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?

From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:24 -0400 (EDT)

> Are you saying that this behavior is okay? It is desired behavior that a
> socket option changes the way how global network counters are handled?

I'm saying that bumping the per-device tx_dropped counter in
the qdisc layer is wrong, nothing more.
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