net: net: add a core netdev->tx_dropped counter
Dropping packets in __dev_queue_xmit() when transmit queue
is stopped (NIC TX ring buffer full or BQL limit reached) currently
outputs a syslog message.
It would be better to get a precise count of such events available in
netdevice stats so that monitoring tools can have a clue.
This extends the work done in caf586e5f23ce
("net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 48dd323..98ba581 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2880,6 +2880,7 @@
rc = -ENETDOWN;
rcu_read_unlock_bh();
+ atomic_long_inc(&dev->tx_dropped);
kfree_skb(skb);
return rc;
out:
@@ -6238,6 +6239,7 @@
netdev_stats_to_stats64(storage, &dev->stats);
}
storage->rx_dropped += atomic_long_read(&dev->rx_dropped);
+ storage->tx_dropped += atomic_long_read(&dev->tx_dropped);
return storage;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_stats);