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Message-Id: <20201231033753.1568393-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:37:53 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: suggest L2 discards be counted towards rx_dropped
>From the existing definitions it's unclear which stat to
use to report filtering based on L2 dst addr in old
broadcast-medium Ethernet.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index 874cc12a34d9..82708c6db432 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ struct rtnl_link_stats {
*
* @rx_dropped: Number of packets received but not processed,
* e.g. due to lack of resources or unsupported protocol.
- * For hardware interfaces this counter should not include packets
- * dropped by the device which are counted separately in
+ * For hardware interfaces this counter may include packets discarded
+ * due to L2 address filtering but should not include packets dropped
+ * by the device due to buffer exhaustion which are counted separately in
* @rx_missed_errors (since procfs folds those two counters together).
*
* @tx_dropped: Number of packets dropped on their way to transmission,
--
2.26.2
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