netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14685] New: 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31: very high number of RX dropped in bnx2

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Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:33:56 +0100 (CET)
From:	Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@....pl>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
cc:	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org" 
	<bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>,
	"bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org" <bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14685] New: 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31: very high number
 of RX dropped in bnx2



On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Michael Chan wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>> # uptime ; ifconfig eth0|grep "RX p"; ethtool -S eth0|grep disc
>>>  01:07:31 up 6 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.04
>>>           RX packets:2234 errors:0 dropped:527 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>      rx_discards: 0
>>>      rx_fw_discards: 527
>>>
>
> Please report rx_bcast_packets and rx_mcast_packets together with
> rx_fw_discards.  Thanks.

# ethtool -S eth0|egrep "(rx_bcast_packets|rx_mcast_packets|rx_fw_discards)"
      rx_mcast_packets: 2806
      rx_bcast_packets: 790016
      rx_fw_discards: 790016

Best regards,

 				Krzysztof Olędzki