dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets

Patch to add the ability to detect drops in hardware interfaces via dropwatch.
Adds a tracepoint to net_rx_action to signal everytime a napi instance is
polled.  The dropmon code then periodically checks to see if the rx_frames
counter has changed, and if so, adds a drop notification to the netlink
protocol, using the reserved all-0's vector to indicate the drop location was in
hardware, rather than somewhere in the code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/net_dropmon.h |    8 ++
 include/trace/napi.h        |   11 +++
 net/core/dev.c              |    5 +
 net/core/drop_monitor.c     |  124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/core/net-traces.c       |    4 +
 net/core/netpoll.c          |    2
 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Neil Horman
2009-05-21 07:36:08 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d95ed9275e
commit 4ea7e38696
6 changed files with 149 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -2,12 +2,20 @@
#define __NET_DROPMON_H
#include <linux/netlink.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
struct net_dm_drop_point {
__u8 pc[8];
__u32 count;
};
#define is_drop_point_hw(x) do {\
int ____i, ____j;\
for (____i = 0; ____i < 8; i ____i++)\
____j |= x[____i];\
____j;\
} while (0)
#define NET_DM_CFG_VERSION 0
#define NET_DM_CFG_ALERT_COUNT 1
#define NET_DM_CFG_ALERT_DELAY 2