[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] ixgbe: Fix oerrors by setting it to 0

[Tahhan, Maryam]

> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:20 AM
> To: Tahhan, Maryam
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Ananyev, Konstantin
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] ixgbe: Fix oerrors by setting it to 0
> 
> > > Fix afebc86be1346136125af8026dc215f81c202c50. oerrors was txdgpc -
> > > hw_stats->gptc, txdgpc is the number of packets DMA'ed by the host
> > > and was being reset on every call to read stats so it could be < gptc.
> > > Because we currently have no way to add txdgpc to struct hw_stats so
> > > that we can maintain a persistent value per port oerrors has now
> > > been set to 0. References to txdgpc is now removed as we don't use
> > > it. This patch also removes rxnfgpc as it's not used anywhere.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan at intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks
> 
> It's a bit sad.
> Is it a consequence of forbidding updates in the base driver?

Yes, that's exactly it.

In the meantime I'm going to look at/investigate another way to allow us to maintain additional (anything not in struct hw_stats) per port stats/registers in addition to the base driver. 

All the best
Maryam