Merge branch 'rx_nohandler'
Jarod Wilson says:
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net: add and use rx_nohandler stat counter
The network core tries to keep track of dropped packets, but some packets
you wouldn't really call dropped, so much as intentionally ignored, under
certain circumstances. One such case is that of bonding and team device
slaves that are currently inactive. Their respective rx_handler functions
return RX_HANDLER_EXACT (the only places in the kernel that return that),
which ends up tracking into the network core's __netif_receive_skb_core()
function's drop path, with no pt_prev set. On a noisy network, this can
result in a very rapidly incrementing rx_dropped counter, not only on the
inactive slave(s), but also on the master device, such as the following:
$ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
p7p1: 14783346 140430 0 140428 0 0 0 2040 680 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
p7p2: 14805198 140648 0 0 0 0 0 2034 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
bond0: 53365248 532798 0 421160 0 0 0 115151 2040 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
lo: 5420 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 5420 54 0 0 0 0 0 0
p5p1: 19292195 196197 0 140368 0 0 0 56564 680 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
p5p2: 19289707 196171 0 140364 0 0 0 56547 680 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
em3: 20996626 158214 0 0 0 0 0 383 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
em2: 14065122 138462 0 0 0 0 0 310 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
em1: 14063162 138440 0 0 0 0 0 308 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
em4: 21050830 158729 0 0 0 0 0 385 71662 469 0 0 0 0 0 0
ib0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
In this scenario, p5p1, p5p2 and p7p1 are all inactive slaves in an
active-backup bond0, and you can see that all three have high drop counts,
with the master bond0 showing a tally of all three.
I know that this was previously discussed some here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg226341.html
It seems additional counters never came to fruition, so this is a first
attempt at creating one of them, so that we stop calling these drops,
which for users monitoring rx_dropped, causes great alarm, and renders the
counter much less useful for them.
This adds a sysfs statistics node and makes the counter available via
netlink.
Additionally, I'm not certain if this set qualifies for net, or if it
should be put aside and resubmitted for net-next after 4.5 is put to
bed, but I do have users who consider this an important bugfix.
This has been tested quite a bit on x86_64, and now lightly on i686 as
well, to verify functionality of updates to netdev_stats_to_stats64()
on 32-bit arches.
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Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>