Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mlx5: Report imissed stat

2018-11-14 Thread Shahaf Shuler
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 6:18 PM, Tom Barbette: > Subject: RE: [PATCH] mlx5: Report imissed stat > > Hi Shahaf, > > Yes we learned this distinction with rx_discards_phy the hard way. I would > expect imissed to be only rx_out_of_buffer actually. I'd say people look at > imissed to see if the

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mlx5: Report imissed stat

2018-11-14 Thread Tom Barbette
Hi Shahaf, Yes we learned this distinction with rx_discards_phy the hard way. I would expect imissed to be only rx_out_of_buffer actually. I'd say people look at imissed to see if they consume packets fast enough. If the problem is pure CPU power. And that is more the definition of imissed, it

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mlx5: Report imissed stat

2018-11-14 Thread Shahaf Shuler
Hi Again Tom, Tuesday, November 13, 2018 12:17 PM, Tom Barbette: > Subject: [PATCH] mlx5: Report imissed stat > > The imissed counters (number of packets dropped because the queues were > full) were actually reported through xstats as "rx_out_of_buffer" > but was not reported through stats. > >

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mlx5: Report imissed stat

2018-11-13 Thread Tom Barbette
The imissed counters (number of packets dropped because the queues were full) were actually reported through xstats as "rx_out_of_buffer" but was not reported through stats. Following a recent discussion on the ML, as there is no way to tell the user if a counter is implemented or not, this should