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ixgbe: add counter for times Rx pages gets allocated, not recycled
The ixgbe driver have page recycle scheme based around the RX-ring queue, where a RX page is shared between two packets. Based on the refcnt, the driver can determine if the RX-page is currently only used by a single packet, if so it can then directly refill/recycle the RX-slot by with the opposite "side" of the page. While this is a clever trick, it is hard to determine when this recycling is successful and when it fails. Adding a counter, which is available via ethtool --statistics as 'alloc_rx_page'. Which counts the number of times the recycle fails and the real page allocator is invoked. When interpreting the stats, do remember that every alloc will serve two packets. The counter is collected per rx_ring, but is summed and ethtool exported as 'alloc_rx_page'. It would be relevant to know what rx_ring that cannot keep up, but that can be exported later if someone experience a need for this. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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