netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH v2 1/2] ixgbe: Fix tx_restart_queue/non_eop

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Message-Id: <20091215.231651.144154754.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:16:51 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	mallikarjuna.chilakala@...el.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH v2 1/2] ixgbe: Fix
 tx_restart_queue/non_eop_desc statistics counters

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:13:54 -0800 (PST)

> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:56:59 -0800
> 
>> From: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@...el.com>
>> 
>> Fix the restart_queue and non_eop_desc counters from being
>> double-counted.  They are cumulative in each ring, so we don't want to
>> add them to the cumulative result in the adapter's master counter.
>> Otherwise, the stats will be inaccurate
>> 
>> Signed-off-by:  Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@...el.com>
>> Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> 
> Applied.

So how did you build test this?

drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c: In function ‘ixgbe_update_stats’:
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c:4532: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct ixgbe_ring’)
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c:4536: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct ixgbe_ring’)