dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets
authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Thu, 21 May 2009 07:36:08 +0000 (07:36 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 21 May 2009 23:50:21 +0000 (16:50 -0700)
commit4ea7e38696c7e798c47ebbecadfd392f23f814f9
tree1e144d0c79fb667860ff7fa0ed203984e888ddab
parentd95ed9275edcb8995bda31005bb3f55e087626d7
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: Neil 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/net_dropmon.h
include/trace/napi.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/core/dev.c
net/core/drop_monitor.c
net/core/net-traces.c
net/core/netpoll.c