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| author | Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com> | 2014-09-02 09:56:48 +0530 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-09-02 12:45:59 -0700 |
| commit | acbd6ff833da9d84e6596bfc94c5605a9c5b66da (patch) | |
| tree | 373db81f1905dd58bc6cad269c3c0e7275d02dd7 /drivers/net/ethernet/emulex | |
| parent | c3c18bc1de27741de9188094fcd4e253c9426164 (diff) | |
be2net: add a description for counter rx_input_fifo_overflow_drop
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/emulex')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c index 0cd3311409a8..d8d7a4a8538f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ static const struct be_ethtool_stat et_stats[] = { * fifo must never overflow. */ {DRVSTAT_INFO(rxpp_fifo_overflow_drop)}, + /* Received packets dropped when the RX block runs out of space in + * one of its input FIFOs. This could happen due a long burst of + * minimum-sized (64b) frames in the receive path. + * This counter may also be erroneously incremented rarely. + */ {DRVSTAT_INFO(rx_input_fifo_overflow_drop)}, {DRVSTAT_INFO(rx_ip_checksum_errs)}, {DRVSTAT_INFO(rx_tcp_checksum_errs)}, |