netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 4/7] net: ravb: Always update error counters

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Message-ID: <c58ab319-222b-5ab0-0924-7774a473e276@omp.ru>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:46:45 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>, "David S . Miller"
	<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>, Wolfram Sang
	<wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 4/7] net: ravb: Always update error
 counters

On 2/6/24 12:19 PM, Paul Barker wrote:

> The error statistics should be updated each time the poll function is
> called, even if the full RX work budget has been consumed. This prevents
> the counts from becoming stuck when RX bandwidth usage is high.
> 
> This also ensures that error counters are not updated after we've
> re-enabled interrupts as that could result in a race condition.
> 
> Also drop an unnecessary space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>

   Definitely looks like a bug fix...

[...]

MBR, Sergey