netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: Export dev_core_stats_rx_dropped

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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:15:13 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
 pabeni@...hat.com, horms@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Export dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc sets

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:20:16 +0800
Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev> wrote:

> Although there is a kfree_skb_reason() helper function that can be
> used to find the reason for dropped packets, but most callers didn't
> increase one of rx_dropped, tx_dropped, rx_nohandler and
> rx_otherhost_dropped.
> 
> For the users, people are more concerned about why the dropped in
> ifconfig is increasing. So we can export
> dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc sets, which users would trace them know
> why rx_dropped is increasing.

ifconfig has been frozen for over 10 years, and is deprecated so there
is no point in catering to legacy api's. There are better API's such as
ethtool and netlink that can provide more info.