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Commit 4ea7e386 authored by Neil Horman's avatar Neil Horman Committed by David S. Miller
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dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets



Patch to add the ability to detect drops in hardware interfaces via dropwatch.
Adds a tracepoint to net_rx_action to signal everytime a napi instance is
polled.  The dropmon code then periodically checks to see if the rx_frames
counter has changed, and if so, adds a drop notification to the netlink
protocol, using the reserved all-0's vector to indicate the drop location was in
hardware, rather than somewhere in the code.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/net_dropmon.h |    8 ++
 include/trace/napi.h        |   11 +++
 net/core/dev.c              |    5 +
 net/core/drop_monitor.c     |  124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/core/net-traces.c       |    4 +
 net/core/netpoll.c          |    2
 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d95ed927
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