Make a distniction between dropped packets and error statistics to allow
a higher level fault management entity to interact with DPDK and take
appropriate measures when errors are detected. It will also provide
valuable information for any applications that collects/extracts DPDK
stats, such applications include Open vSwitch.
After this patch the distinction is:
ierrors = Total number of packets dropped by hardware (malformed
packets, ...) Where the # of drops can ONLY be <= the packets received
(without overlap between registers).
Rx_pkt_errors = Total number of erroneous received packets. Where the #
of errors can be >= the packets received (without overlap between
registers), this is because there may be multiple errors associated with
a packet.
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan at intel.com>
---
lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
index 8a8c82b..53dd55d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -200,8 +200,9 @@ struct rte_eth_stats {
/**< Deprecated; Total of RX packets with CRC error. */
uint64_t ibadlen;
/**< Deprecated; Total of RX packets with bad length. */
- uint64_t ierrors; /**< Total number of erroneous received packets. */
+ uint64_t ierrors; /**< Total number of dropped received packets. */
uint64_t oerrors; /**< Total number of failed transmitted packets. */
+ uint64_t ipkterrors; /**< Total number of erroneous received packets.
*/
uint64_t imcasts;
/**< Deprecated; Total number of multicast received packets. */
uint64_t rx_nombuf; /**< Total number of RX mbuf allocation failures. */
--
2.4.3
