bnxt_en: Exclude rx_drop_pkts hw counter from the stack's rx_dropped counter.
authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:11:21 +0000 (03:11 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:28:39 +0000 (17:28 -0800)
This hardware counter is misleading as it counts dropped packets that
don't match the hardware filters for unicast/broadcast/multicast.  We
will still report this counter in ethtool -S for diagnostics purposes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c

index 17dcacd..ebc5413 100644 (file)
@@ -4819,8 +4819,6 @@ bnxt_get_stats64(struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
 
                stats->multicast += le64_to_cpu(hw_stats->rx_mcast_pkts);
 
-               stats->rx_dropped += le64_to_cpu(hw_stats->rx_drop_pkts);
-
                stats->tx_dropped += le64_to_cpu(hw_stats->tx_drop_pkts);
        }