netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: add a new xmit

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Message-Id: <20141004.200448.76860712037875110.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:04:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	amirv@...lanox.com, brouer@...hat.com, therbert@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org, fw@...len.de,
	dborkman@...hat.com, jhs@...atatu.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, dave.taht@...il.com, toke@...e.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: add a new xmit_more counter

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:24:21 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> ethtool -S reports a new counter, tracking number of time doorbell
> was not triggered, because skb->xmit_more was set.
> 
> $ ethtool -S eth0 | egrep "tx_packet|xmit_more"
>      tx_packets: 2413288400
>      xmit_more: 666121277
> 
> I merged the tso_packet false sharing avoidance in this patch as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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