From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
tariqt@nvidia.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca,
gal@nvidia.com, nalramli@fastly.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org (open list:MELLANOX MLX4 core VPI
driver)
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net/mlx4: Track RX allocation failures in a stat
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240426130017.6e38cd65@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240426183355.500364-2-jdamato@fastly.com>
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:33:53 +0000 Joe Damato wrote:
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c
> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ void mlx4_en_fold_software_stats(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev = priv->mdev;
> - unsigned long packets, bytes;
> + unsigned long packets, bytes, dropped;
> int i;
>
> if (!priv->port_up || mlx4_is_master(mdev->dev))
> @@ -159,14 +159,17 @@ void mlx4_en_fold_software_stats(struct net_device *dev)
>
> packets = 0;
> bytes = 0;
> + dropped = 0;
> for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) {
> const struct mlx4_en_rx_ring *ring = priv->rx_ring[i];
>
> packets += READ_ONCE(ring->packets);
> bytes += READ_ONCE(ring->bytes);
> + dropped += READ_ONCE(ring->dropped);
> }
> dev->stats.rx_packets = packets;
> dev->stats.rx_bytes = bytes;
> + dev->stats.rx_missed_errors = dropped;
I'd drop this chunk, there's a slight but meaningful difference in
definition of rx_missed vs alloc-fail:
* @rx_missed_errors: Count of packets missed by the host.
* Folded into the "drop" counter in `/proc/net/dev`.
*
* Counts number of packets dropped by the device due to lack
* of buffer space. This usually indicates that the host interface
* is slower than the network interface, or host is not keeping up
* with the receive packet rate.
---
name: rx-alloc-fail
doc: |
Number of times skb or buffer allocation failed on the Rx datapath.
Allocation failure may, or may not result in a packet drop, depending
on driver implementation and whether system recovers quickly.
tl;dr "packets dropped" vs "may, or may not result in a packet drop"
In case of mlx4 looks like the buffer refill is "async", the driver
tries to refill the buffers to max, but if it fails the next NAPI poll
will try again. Allocation failures are not directly tied to packet
drops. In case of bnxt if "replacement" buffer can't be allocated -
packet is dropped and old buffer gets returned to the ring (although
if I'm 100% honest bnxt may be off by a couple, too, as the OOM stat
gets incremented on ifup pre-fill failures).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-26 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-26 18:33 [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] mlx4: Add support for netdev-genl API Joe Damato
2024-04-26 18:33 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net/mlx4: Track RX allocation failures in a stat Joe Damato
2024-04-26 20:00 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-04-26 23:43 ` Joe Damato
2024-04-26 23:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-04-27 0:28 ` Joe Damato
2024-04-27 0:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-04-26 18:33 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net/mlx4: link NAPI instances to queues and IRQs Joe Damato
2024-04-26 20:01 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-04-26 18:33 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net/mlx4: support per-queue statistics via netlink Joe Damato
2024-04-26 20:01 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-04-27 0:05 ` Joe Damato
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