5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Carolina Jubran cjubran@nvidia.com
[ Upstream commit 5c74195d5dd977e97556e6fa76909b831c241230 ]
Previously, the driver incorrectly used rx_dropped to report device buffer exhaustion.
According to the documentation, rx_dropped should not be used to count packets dropped due to buffer exhaustion, which is the purpose of rx_missed_errors.
Use rx_missed_errors as intended for counting packets dropped due to buffer exhaustion.
Fixes: 269e6b3af3bf ("net/mlx5e: Report additional error statistics in get stats ndo") Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran cjubran@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan tariqt@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Simon Horman horms@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c index 35630b538c826..facbbd3fac66a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c @@ -3667,7 +3667,7 @@ mlx5e_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats) mlx5e_fold_sw_stats64(priv, stats); }
- stats->rx_dropped = priv->stats.qcnt.rx_out_of_buffer; + stats->rx_missed_errors = priv->stats.qcnt.rx_out_of_buffer;
stats->rx_length_errors = PPORT_802_3_GET(pstats, a_in_range_length_errors) +