core: add stat to track unresolved discards in neighbor cache
in __neigh_event_send, if we have a neighbour entry which is in
NUD_INCOMPLETE state, we enqueue any outbound frames to that neighbour
to the neighbours arp_queue, which is default capped to a length of 3
skbs. If that queue exceeds its set length, it will drop an skb on
the queue to enqueue the newly arrived skb. This results in a drop
for which we have no statistics incremented. This patch adds an
unresolved_discards stat to /proc/net/stat/ndisc_cache to track these
lost frames.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
index dc420fe..aa4b708 100644
--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
unsigned long destroys; /* number of destroyed neighs */
unsigned long hash_grows; /* number of hash resizes */
- unsigned long res_failed; /* nomber of failed resolutions */
+ unsigned long res_failed; /* number of failed resolutions */
unsigned long lookups; /* number of lookups */
unsigned long hits; /* number of hits (among lookups) */
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@
unsigned long periodic_gc_runs; /* number of periodic GC runs */
unsigned long forced_gc_runs; /* number of forced GC runs */
+
+ unsigned long unres_discards; /* number of unresolved drops */
};
#define NEIGH_CACHE_STAT_INC(tbl, field) \
