netdev - Re: r8169 regression: UDP packets dropped intermittantly

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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:46:50 +1030
From:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...ad.com.au>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 regression: UDP packets dropped intermittantly

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> The hardware stats are not exactly clear. Is the initial Tx - Rx packet
> difference (6) at the hardware stats level expected ?

Sorry, I missed this question earlier.  When speaking to the external
device, each UDP command packet that's sent should be balanced with a
response.  However, if a UDP command is sent to a device that's not on (or
there's a typo with the address) then obviously that transmitted packet will
never be responded to.  I expect something like this could easily have
happened during the session in which I ran that test for you, so in that
case would be explainable.

I note that the difference did increase to 7 at the 1447985726.272550987 
mark.  Since this was during the test I can't quite explain that one, unless
something else on the system happened to send a UDP packet out onto that
interface which was not responded to.

Regards
  jonathan
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