[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] ethdev: distinguish between drop and error stats
Maryam Tahhan
maryam.tahhan at intel.com
Mon Oct 19 14:20:53 CEST 2015
Make a distniction between dropped packets and error statistics to allow
a higher level fault management entity to interact with DPDK and take
appropriate measures when errors are detected. It will also provide
valuable information for any applications that collects/extracts DPDK
stats, such applications include Open vSwitch.
After this patch the distinction is:
ierrors = Total number of packets dropped by hardware (malformed
packets, ...) Where the # of drops can ONLY be <= the packets received
(without overlap between registers).
ipkterrors = Total number of erroneous received packets. Where the #
of errors can be >= the packets received (without overlap between
registers), this is because there may be multiple errors associated with
a packet.
v2:
- Added detailed descriptions for ierrors and ipkterrors.
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan at intel.com>
---
lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
index 8a8c82b..e27ba31 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -200,8 +200,18 @@ struct rte_eth_stats {
/**< Deprecated; Total of RX packets with CRC error. */
uint64_t ibadlen;
/**< Deprecated; Total of RX packets with bad length. */
- uint64_t ierrors; /**< Total number of erroneous received packets. */
+ uint64_t ierrors;
+ /**< Total number of packets dropped by hardware (malformed packets...)
+ * Where the # of drops can ONLY be <= the packets received (without
+ * overlap between registers).
+ */
uint64_t oerrors; /**< Total number of failed transmitted packets. */
+ uint64_t ipkterrors;
+ /**< Total number of erroneous received packets. Where the number of
+ * errors can be >= the packets received (without overlap between
+ * registers), this is because there may be multiple errors associated with
+ * a packet.
+ */
uint64_t imcasts;
/**< Deprecated; Total number of multicast received packets. */
uint64_t rx_nombuf; /**< Total number of RX mbuf allocation failures. */
--
2.4.3
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