Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: add SNMP counter for the number of packets pruned from ofo queue

[Yafang Shao]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 07/25/2018 06:40 AM, Yafang Shao wrote:
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>> Because we want to know why packets were dropped.
>> If that could be show in netstat, we could easily find that it is
>> dropped due to ofo prune.
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> We have a counter already for these events : LINUX_MIB_OFOPRUNED
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> You want to add another counter tracking number of _skbs_,
> which has no precise value for user,
> given each skb can contain a variable number of _packets_.
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Got it.

But with LINUX_MIB_OFOPRUNED, we only know  tcp_prune_ofo_queue is
called, but have no idea how many skbs are dropped.

Thanks
Yafang