From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758951Ab2DYLao (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:30:44 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:54970 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758485Ab2DYLam (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:30:42 -0400 Subject: Re: many rx packets dropped since 2.6.37 From: Eric Dumazet To: Chris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:27 +0200 Message-ID: <1335353427.3274.103.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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.