ale stats (AR8121)

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:41 PM 5/26/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:

>Anyway I have to ask Atheros what the counter really means.
>Thanks for reminding it. If I get some feedback I'll let you know.

Thanks!
One more question about this NIC. While doing some stress testing as 
an nfsserver, I did get a few fifo overflows.  Is there any tuning 
that can be done to handle greater loads ?

dev.ale.0.%desc: Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet
dev.ale.0.%driver: ale
dev.ale.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
dev.ale.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1969 device=0x1026 subvendor=0x1043 
subdevice=0x8226 class=0x020000
dev.ale.0.%parent: pci4
dev.ale.0.int_rx_mod: 30
dev.ale.0.int_tx_mod: 1000
dev.ale.0.process_limit: 64
dev.ale.0.reset_brk_seq: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_frames: 40750507
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_frames: 56321
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_mcast_frames: 9
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.pause_frames: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.control_frames: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.crc_errs: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.len_errs: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_octets: 60667019510
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_octets: 4090260
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_mcast_octets: 1220
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.runts: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.fragments: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_64: 96112
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_65_127: 224804
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_128_255: 162357
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_256_511: 6546
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_512_1023: 213983
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1024_1518: 40088225
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1519_max: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.trunc_errs: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.fifo_oflows: 87
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.rrs_errs: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.align_errs: 0
dev.ale.0.stats.rx.filtered: 41433

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