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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2020-12-30 19:37:53 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-01-05 16:23:57 -0800 |
| commit | cf0720697143f3eaa0779cca5a6602d8557d1c6f (patch) | |
| tree | 997ca7e467c6b71e1bbe29b1fd3f61a22cb819f3 | |
| parent | 0f7ba7bc46fa0b574ccacf5672991b321e028492 (diff) | |
net: suggest L2 discards be counted towards rx_dropped
From the existing definitions it's unclear which stat to
use to report filtering based on L2 dst addr in old
broadcast-medium Ethernet.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h index 874cc12a34d9..82708c6db432 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h @@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ struct rtnl_link_stats { * * @rx_dropped: Number of packets received but not processed, * e.g. due to lack of resources or unsupported protocol. - * For hardware interfaces this counter should not include packets - * dropped by the device which are counted separately in + * For hardware interfaces this counter may include packets discarded + * due to L2 address filtering but should not include packets dropped + * by the device due to buffer exhaustion which are counted separately in * @rx_missed_errors (since procfs folds those two counters together). * * @tx_dropped: Number of packets dropped on their way to transmission, |