netdev - [patch net 1/2] mlxsw: spectrum: Don't count internal TX header bytes to stats

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Message-Id: <1466168946-14658-2-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:09:05 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, nogahf@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com,
	eladr@...lanox.com, yotamg@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Subject: [patch net 1/2] mlxsw: spectrum: Don't count internal TX header bytes to stats

From: Nogah Frankel <nogahf@...lanox.com>

Stop the SW TX counter from counting the TX header bytes
since they are not being sent out.

Fixes: 56ade8fe3fe1 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Add initial support for Spectrum ASIC")
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel <nogahf@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c
index 6f9e3dd..660429e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c
@@ -408,7 +408,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t mlxsw_sp_port_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	mlxsw_sp_txhdr_construct(skb, &tx_info);
-	len = skb->len;
+	/* TX header is consumed by HW on the way so we shouldn't count its
+	 * bytes as being sent.
+	 */
+	len = skb->len - MLXSW_TXHDR_LEN;
+
 	/* Due to a race we might fail here because of a full queue. In that
 	 * unlikely case we simply drop the packet.
 	 */
-- 
2.5.5