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[dpdk-dev] doc: describe Rx bytes counter behavior for enic

Message ID 20180224191748.20908-8-johndale@cisco.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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John Daley (johndale) Feb. 24, 2018, 7:17 p.m. UTC 
  From: Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim@cisco.com>

Signed-off-by: Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
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 doc/guides/nics/enic.rst | 8 ++++++++
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst
index 7e19cf88a..0bc55936a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst
@@ -310,6 +310,14 @@  Limitations
     were added. Since there currently is no grouping or priority support,
     'catch-all' filters should be added last.
 
+- **Statistics**
+
+  - ``rx_good_bytes`` (ibytes) always includes VLAN header (4B) and CRC bytes (4B).
+  - When the NIC drops a packet because the Rx queue has no free buffers,
+    ``rx_good_bytes`` still increments by 4B if the packet is not VLAN tagged or
+    VLAN stripping is disabled, or by 8B if the packet is VLAN tagged and stripping
+    is enabled.
+
 How to build the suite
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