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[net,2/3] bnxt_en: Exclude rx_drop_pkts hw counter from the stack's rx_dropped counter.

Message ID 1453968682-10014-3-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Michael Chan Jan. 28, 2016, 8:11 a.m. UTC 
This hardware counter is misleading as it counts dropped packets that
don't match the hardware filters for unicast/broadcast/multicast.  We
will still report this counter in ethtool -S for diagnostics purposes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
index 17dcacd..ebc5413 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
@@ -4819,8 +4819,6 @@  bnxt_get_stats64(struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
 
 		stats->multicast += le64_to_cpu(hw_stats->rx_mcast_pkts);
 
-		stats->rx_dropped += le64_to_cpu(hw_stats->rx_drop_pkts);
-
 		stats->tx_dropped += le64_to_cpu(hw_stats->tx_drop_pkts);
 	}