Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/5] normalize calculations of rx_dropped

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:53:31PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> For e.g. e1000, are we sure that packets dropped by hardware are 
> accounted elsewhere?

The e100 and tg3 patches move the count of those frames to
rx_missed_errors.  e1000 and ixgb were already counting them there in
addition to rx_discards, so they were simply removed from rx_discards.
3c59x was counting other errors in rx_discards, so they were removed
from that count.

John
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