netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net/mlx4: Track RX allocation failures in a stat

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:34:06 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tariqt@...dia.com,
 saeedm@...dia.com, mkarsten@...terloo.ca, gal@...dia.com,
 nalramli@...tly.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "open list:MELLANOX
 MLX4 core VPI driver" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net/mlx4: Track RX allocation failures
 in a stat

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:28:03 -0700 Joe Damato wrote:
> Ah, maybe I read what you wrote incorrectly in your previous message.
> 
> I think you were saying that I should drop just the
> 
>   dev->stats.rx_missed_errors = dropped;
> 
> due to the definition of rx_missed_errors, but that by the definition of
> rx-alloc-fail:
> 
>   alloc_fail = ring->dropped;
> 
> is still valid and can stay.

That's right, yes.