From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Chris <xchris89x@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: many rx packets dropped since 2.6.37
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335353427.3274.103.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOFJUkhi6NoECFGcz=rq8-uVXFc90V4SuH=A1+sWdvYDDhO8Ow@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 13:03 +0200, Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is a bug since 2.6.37 with dropped rx packets in virtual
> environments (like kvm) and bonded network interfaces.
>
> References:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/890475
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709551
>
> This change has led to:
> commit caf586e5f23cebb2a68cbaf288d59dbbf2d74052
> Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu Sep 30 21:06:55 2010 +0000
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=caf586e5f23cebb2a68cbaf288d59dbbf2d74052
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8990f468a
>
> Would it be possible to remove this patch?
>
> --
> Chris
Its no possible to remove this patch.
If you want to ignore fact that packets _are_ dropped, just ignore the
counter.
We want to track dropped packets, not hide them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 11:03 Chris
2012-04-25 11:30 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-04-25 12:34 ` Chris
2012-04-25 12:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25 14:38 ` Chris
2012-04-25 17:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-26 13:53 ` Chris
2012-04-26 14:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-26 14:29 ` Chris
2012-04-26 14:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25 18:00 ` David Miller
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