On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, jamal wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-23-12 at 02:35 -0800, dean gaudet wrote:
> > it seems that ifb counts packets twice... both at xmit time and also in 
> > the tasklet.  i'm not sure which one of the two to drop, but here's a 
> > patch for dropping the counting at xmit time.
> 
> Good catch but not quite right. The correct way to do it is to increment
> the rx_ counters instead of tx_ right at the top of  ifb_xmit().
> 
> Do you wanna resubmit your patch with these chmages and hopefully tested
> for your situation?

heh yeah that makes more sense :)

-dean

Signed-off-by: dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux/drivers/net/ifb.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/net/ifb.c        2006-11-29 13:57:37.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/drivers/net/ifb.c     2006-12-23 13:52:39.000000000 -0800
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@
        int ret = 0;
        u32 from = G_TC_FROM(skb->tc_verd);
 
-       stats->tx_packets++;
-       stats->tx_bytes+=skb->len;
+       stats->rx_packets++;
+       stats->rx_bytes+=skb->len;
 
        if (!from || !skb->input_dev) {
 dropped:
-
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