Re: many rx packets dropped since 2.6.37

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Apr 25 2012 - 07:30:39 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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.



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