[PATCH] veth: ignore peer tx_dropped when counting local rx_dropped

From: Lidong Jiang
Date: Tue Mar 03 2020 - 20:55:03 EST


From: Jiang Lidong <jianglidong3@xxxxxx>

When local NET_RX backlog is full due to traffic overrun,
peer veth tx_dropped counter increases. At that time, list
local veth stats, rx_dropped has double value of peer
tx_dropped, even bigger than transmit packets by peer.

In NET_RX softirq process, if any packet drop case happens,
it increases dev's rx_dropped counter and returns NET_RX_DROP.

At veth tx side, it records any error returned from peer netif_rx
into local dev tx_dropped counter.

In veth get stats process, it puts local dev rx_dropped and
peer dev tx_dropped into together as local rx_drpped value.
So that it shows double value of real dropped packets number in
this case.

This patch ignores peer tx_dropped when counting local rx_dropped,
since peer tx_dropped is duplicated to local rx_dropped at most cases.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Lidong <jianglidong3@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/veth.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index a552df3..bad9e03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static void veth_get_stats64(struct net_device *dev,
rcu_read_lock();
peer = rcu_dereference(priv->peer);
if (peer) {
- tot->rx_dropped += veth_stats_tx(peer, &packets, &bytes);
+ veth_stats_tx(peer, &packets, &bytes);
tot->rx_bytes += bytes;
tot->rx_packets += packets;

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