1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB 2.. include:: <isonum.txt> 3 4================ 5Ethtool counters 6================ 7 8:Copyright: |copy| 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved. 9 10Contents 11======== 12 13- `Overview`_ 14- `Groups`_ 15- `Types`_ 16- `Descriptions`_ 17 18Overview 19======== 20 21There are several counter groups based on where the counter is being counted. In 22addition, each group of counters may have different counter types. 23 24These counter groups are based on which component in a networking setup, 25illustrated below, that they describe:: 26 27 ---------------------------------------- 28 | | 29 ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- | 30 | Hypervisor | | VM | | 31 | | | | | 32 | ------------------- --------------- | | ------------------- --------------- | | 33 | | Ethernet driver | | RDMA driver | | | | Ethernet driver | | RDMA driver | | | 34 | ------------------- --------------- | | ------------------- --------------- | | 35 | | | | | | | | | 36 | ------------------- | | ------------------- | | 37 | | | | | |-- 38 ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- 39 | | 40 ------------- ----------------------------- 41 | | 42 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ 43 -----| PF |----------------------| VF |-| VF |-| VF |----- --| PF |--- --| PF |--- --| PF |--- 44 | ------ ------ ------ ------ | | ------ | | ------ | | ------ | 45 | | | | | | | | 46 | | | | | | | | 47 | | | | | | | | 48 | eSwitch | | eSwitch | | eSwitch | | eSwitch | 49 ---------------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- 50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51 | | 52 | | 53 | Uplink (no counters) | 54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55 --------------------------------------------------------------- 56 | | 57 | | 58 | MPFS (no counters) | 59 --------------------------------------------------------------- 60 | 61 | 62 | Port 63 64Groups 65====== 66 67Ring 68 Software counters populated by the driver stack. 69 70Netdev 71 An aggregation of software ring counters. 72 73vPort counters 74 Traffic counters and drops due to steering or no buffers. May indicate issues 75 with NIC. These counters include Ethernet traffic counters (including Raw 76 Ethernet) and RDMA/RoCE traffic counters. 77 78Physical port counters 79 Counters that collect statistics about the PFs and VFs. May indicate issues 80 with NIC, link, or network. This measuring point holds information on 81 standardized counters like IEEE 802.3, RFC2863, RFC 2819, RFC 3635 and 82 additional counters like flow control, FEC and more. Physical port counters 83 are not exposed to virtual machines. 84 85Priority Port Counters 86 A set of the physical port counters, per priority per port. 87 88Types 89===== 90 91Counters are divided into three types. 92 93Traffic Informative Counters 94 Counters which count traffic. These counters can be used for load estimation 95 or for general debug. 96 97Traffic Acceleration Counters 98 Counters which count traffic that was accelerated by Mellanox driver or by 99 hardware. The counters are an additional layer to the informative counter set, 100 and the same traffic is counted in both informative and acceleration counters. 101 102.. [#accel] Traffic acceleration counter. 103 104Error Counters 105 Increment of these counters might indicate a problem. Each of these counters 106 has an explanation and correction action. 107 108Statistic can be fetched via the `ip link` or `ethtool` commands. `ethtool` 109provides more detailed information.:: 110 111 ip –s link show <if-name> 112 ethtool -S <if-name> 113 114Descriptions 115============ 116 117XSK, PTP, and QoS counters that are similar to counters defined previously will 118not be separately listed. For example, `ptp_tx[i]_packets` will not be 119explicitly documented since `tx[i]_packets` describes the behavior of both 120counters, except `ptp_tx[i]_packets` is only counted when precision time 121protocol is used. 122 123Ring / Netdev Counter 124---------------------------- 125The following counters are available per ring or software port. 126 127These counters provide information on the amount of traffic that was accelerated 128by the NIC. The counters are counting the accelerated traffic in addition to the 129standard counters which counts it (i.e. accelerated traffic is counted twice). 130 131The counter names in the table below refers to both ring and port counters. The 132notation for ring counters includes the [i] index without the braces. The 133notation for port counters doesn't include the [i]. A counter name 134`rx[i]_packets` will be printed as `rx0_packets` for ring 0 and `rx_packets` for 135the software port. 136 137.. flat-table:: Ring / Software Port Counter Table 138 :widths: 2 3 1 139 140 * - Counter 141 - Description 142 - Type 143 144 * - `rx[i]_packets` 145 - The number of packets received on ring i. 146 - Informative 147 148 * - `rx[i]_bytes` 149 - The number of bytes received on ring i. 150 - Informative 151 152 * - `tx[i]_packets` 153 - The number of packets transmitted on ring i. 154 - Informative 155 156 * - `tx[i]_bytes` 157 - The number of bytes transmitted on ring i. 158 - Informative 159 160 * - `tx[i]_recover` 161 - The number of times the SQ was recovered. 162 - Error 163 164 * - `tx[i]_cqes` 165 - Number of CQEs events on SQ issued on ring i. 166 - Informative 167 168 * - `tx[i]_cqe_err` 169 - The number of error CQEs encountered on the SQ for ring i. 170 - Error 171 172 * - `tx[i]_tso_packets` 173 - The number of TSO packets transmitted on ring i [#accel]_. 174 - Acceleration 175 176 * - `tx[i]_tso_bytes` 177 - The number of TSO bytes transmitted on ring i [#accel]_. 178 - Acceleration 179 180 * - `tx[i]_tso_inner_packets` 181 - The number of TSO packets which are indicated to be carry internal 182 encapsulation transmitted on ring i [#accel]_. 183 - Acceleration 184 185 * - `tx[i]_tso_inner_bytes` 186 - The number of TSO bytes which are indicated to be carry internal 187 encapsulation transmitted on ring i [#accel]_. 188 - Acceleration 189 190 * - `rx[i]_gro_packets` 191 - Number of received packets processed using hardware-accelerated GRO. The 192 number of hardware GRO offloaded packets received on ring i. 193 - Acceleration 194 195 * - `rx[i]_gro_bytes` 196 - Number of received bytes processed using hardware-accelerated GRO. The 197 number of hardware GRO offloaded bytes received on ring i. 198 - Acceleration 199 200 * - `rx[i]_gro_skbs` 201 - The number of receive SKBs constructed while performing 202 hardware-accelerated GRO. 203 - Informative 204 205 * - `rx[i]_gro_match_packets` 206 - Number of received packets processed using hardware-accelerated GRO that 207 met the flow table match criteria. 208 - Informative 209 210 * - `rx[i]_gro_large_hds` 211 - Number of receive packets using hardware-accelerated GRO that have large 212 headers that require additional memory to be allocated. 213 - Informative 214 215 * - `rx[i]_lro_packets` 216 - The number of LRO packets received on ring i [#accel]_. 217 - Acceleration 218 219 * - `rx[i]_lro_bytes` 220 - The number of LRO bytes received on ring i [#accel]_. 221 - Acceleration 222 223 * - `rx[i]_ecn_mark` 224 - The number of received packets where the ECN mark was turned on. 225 - Informative 226 227 * - `rx_oversize_pkts_buffer` 228 - The number of dropped received packets due to length which arrived to RQ 229 and exceed software buffer size allocated by the device for incoming 230 traffic. It might imply that the device MTU is larger than the software 231 buffers size. 232 - Error 233 234 * - `rx_oversize_pkts_sw_drop` 235 - Number of received packets dropped in software because the CQE data is 236 larger than the MTU size. 237 - Error 238 239 * - `rx[i]_csum_unnecessary` 240 - Packets received with a `CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY` on ring i [#accel]_. 241 - Acceleration 242 243 * - `rx[i]_csum_unnecessary_inner` 244 - Packets received with inner encapsulation with a `CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY` 245 on ring i [#accel]_. 246 - Acceleration 247 248 * - `rx[i]_csum_none` 249 - Packets received with a `CHECKSUM_NONE` on ring i [#accel]_. 250 - Acceleration 251 252 * - `rx[i]_csum_complete` 253 - Packets received with a `CHECKSUM_COMPLETE` on ring i [#accel]_. 254 - Acceleration 255 256 * - `rx[i]_csum_complete_tail` 257 - Number of received packets that had checksum calculation computed, 258 potentially needed padding, and were able to do so with 259 `CHECKSUM_PARTIAL`. 260 - Informative 261 262 * - `rx[i]_csum_complete_tail_slow` 263 - Number of received packets that need padding larger than eight bytes for 264 the checksum. 265 - Informative 266 267 * - `tx[i]_csum_partial` 268 - Packets transmitted with a `CHECKSUM_PARTIAL` on ring i [#accel]_. 269 - Acceleration 270 271 * - `tx[i]_csum_partial_inner` 272 - Packets transmitted with inner encapsulation with a `CHECKSUM_PARTIAL` on 273 ring i [#accel]_. 274 - Acceleration 275 276 * - `tx[i]_csum_none` 277 - Packets transmitted with no hardware checksum acceleration on ring i. 278 - Informative 279 280 * - `tx[i]_stopped` / `tx_queue_stopped` [#ring_global]_ 281 - Events where SQ was full on ring i. If this counter is increased, check 282 the amount of buffers allocated for transmission. 283 - Informative 284 285 * - `tx[i]_wake` / `tx_queue_wake` [#ring_global]_ 286 - Events where SQ was full and has become not full on ring i. 287 - Informative 288 289 * - `tx[i]_dropped` / `tx_queue_dropped` [#ring_global]_ 290 - Packets transmitted that were dropped due to DMA mapping failure on 291 ring i. If this counter is increased, check the amount of buffers 292 allocated for transmission. 293 - Error 294 295 * - `tx[i]_nop` 296 - The number of nop WQEs (empty WQEs) inserted to the SQ (related to 297 ring i) due to the reach of the end of the cyclic buffer. When reaching 298 near to the end of cyclic buffer the driver may add those empty WQEs to 299 avoid handling a state the a WQE start in the end of the queue and ends 300 in the beginning of the queue. This is a normal condition. 301 - Informative 302 303 * - `tx[i]_added_vlan_packets` 304 - The number of packets sent where vlan tag insertion was offloaded to the 305 hardware. 306 - Acceleration 307 308 * - `rx[i]_removed_vlan_packets` 309 - The number of packets received where vlan tag stripping was offloaded to 310 the hardware. 311 - Acceleration 312 313 * - `rx[i]_wqe_err` 314 - The number of wrong opcodes received on ring i. 315 - Error 316 317 * - `rx[i]_mpwqe_frag` 318 - The number of WQEs that failed to allocate compound page and hence 319 fragmented MPWQE’s (Multi Packet WQEs) were used on ring i. If this 320 counter raise, it may suggest that there is no enough memory for large 321 pages, the driver allocated fragmented pages. This is not abnormal 322 condition. 323 - Informative 324 325 * - `rx[i]_mpwqe_filler_cqes` 326 - The number of filler CQEs events that were issued on ring i. 327 - Informative 328 329 * - `rx[i]_mpwqe_filler_strides` 330 - The number of strides consumed by filler CQEs on ring i. 331 - Informative 332 333 * - `tx[i]_mpwqe_blks` 334 - The number of send blocks processed from Multi-Packet WQEs (mpwqe). 335 - Informative 336 337 * - `tx[i]_mpwqe_pkts` 338 - The number of send packets processed from Multi-Packet WQEs (mpwqe). 339 - Informative 340 341 * - `rx[i]_cqe_compress_blks` 342 - The number of receive blocks with CQE compression on ring i [#accel]_. 343 - Acceleration 344 345 * - `rx[i]_cqe_compress_pkts` 346 - The number of receive packets with CQE compression on ring i [#accel]_. 347 - Acceleration 348 349 * - `rx[i]_arfs_err` 350 - Number of flow rules that failed to be added to the flow table. 351 - Error 352 353 * - `rx[i]_recover` 354 - The number of times the RQ was recovered. 355 - Error 356 357 * - `tx[i]_xmit_more` 358 - The number of packets sent with `xmit_more` indication set on the skbuff 359 (no doorbell). 360 - Acceleration 361 362 * - `ch[i]_poll` 363 - The number of invocations of NAPI poll of channel i. 364 - Informative 365 366 * - `ch[i]_arm` 367 - The number of times the NAPI poll function completed and armed the 368 completion queues on channel i. 369 - Informative 370 371 * - `ch[i]_aff_change` 372 - The number of times the NAPI poll function explicitly stopped execution 373 on a CPU due to a change in affinity, on channel i. 374 - Informative 375 376 * - `ch[i]_events` 377 - The number of hard interrupt events on the completion queues of channel i. 378 - Informative 379 380 * - `ch[i]_eq_rearm` 381 - The number of times the EQ was recovered. 382 - Error 383 384 * - `ch[i]_force_irq` 385 - Number of times NAPI is triggered by XSK wakeups by posting a NOP to 386 ICOSQ. 387 - Acceleration 388 389 * - `rx[i]_congst_umr` 390 - The number of times an outstanding UMR request is delayed due to 391 congestion, on ring i. 392 - Informative 393 394 * - `rx_pp_alloc_fast` 395 - Number of successful fast path allocations. 396 - Informative 397 398 * - `rx_pp_alloc_slow` 399 - Number of slow path order-0 allocations. 400 - Informative 401 402 * - `rx_pp_alloc_slow_high_order` 403 - Number of slow path high order allocations. 404 - Informative 405 406 * - `rx_pp_alloc_empty` 407 - Counter is incremented when ptr ring is empty, so a slow path allocation 408 was forced. 409 - Informative 410 411 * - `rx_pp_alloc_refill` 412 - Counter is incremented when an allocation which triggered a refill of the 413 cache. 414 - Informative 415 416 * - `rx_pp_alloc_waive` 417 - Counter is incremented when pages obtained from the ptr ring that cannot 418 be added to the cache due to a NUMA mismatch. 419 - Informative 420 421 * - `rx_pp_recycle_cached` 422 - Counter is incremented when recycling placed page in the page pool cache. 423 - Informative 424 425 * - `rx_pp_recycle_cache_full` 426 - Counter is incremented when page pool cache was full. 427 - Informative 428 429 * - `rx_pp_recycle_ring` 430 - Counter is incremented when page placed into the ptr ring. 431 - Informative 432 433 * - `rx_pp_recycle_ring_full` 434 - Counter is incremented when page released from page pool because the ptr 435 ring was full. 436 - Informative 437 438 * - `rx_pp_recycle_released_ref` 439 - Counter is incremented when page released (and not recycled) because 440 refcnt > 1. 441 - Informative 442 443 * - `rx[i]_xsk_buff_alloc_err` 444 - The number of times allocating an skb or XSK buffer failed in the XSK RQ 445 context. 446 - Error 447 448 * - `rx[i]_xsk_arfs_err` 449 - aRFS (accelerated Receive Flow Steering) does not occur in the XSK RQ 450 context, so this counter should never increment. 451 - Error 452 453 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_xmit` 454 - The number of packets forwarded back to the port due to XDP program 455 `XDP_TX` action (bouncing). these packets are not counted by other 456 software counters. These packets are counted by physical port and vPort 457 counters. 458 - Informative 459 460 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_mpwqe` 461 - Number of multi-packet WQEs transmitted by the netdev and `XDP_TX`-ed by 462 the netdev during the RQ context. 463 - Acceleration 464 465 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_inlnw` 466 - Number of WQE data segments transmitted where the data could be inlined 467 in the WQE and then `XDP_TX`-ed during the RQ context. 468 - Acceleration 469 470 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_nops` 471 - Number of NOP WQEBBs (WQE building blocks) received posted to the XDP SQ. 472 - Acceleration 473 474 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_full` 475 - The number of packets that should have been forwarded back to the port 476 due to `XDP_TX` action but were dropped due to full tx queue. These packets 477 are not counted by other software counters. These packets are counted by 478 physical port and vPort counters. You may open more rx queues and spread 479 traffic rx over all queues and/or increase rx ring size. 480 - Error 481 482 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_err` 483 - The number of times an `XDP_TX` error such as frame too long and frame 484 too short occurred on `XDP_TX` ring of RX ring. 485 - Error 486 487 * - `rx[i]_xdp_tx_cqes` / `rx_xdp_tx_cqe` [#ring_global]_ 488 - The number of completions received on the CQ of the `XDP_TX` ring. 489 - Informative 490 491 * - `rx[i]_xdp_drop` 492 - The number of packets dropped due to XDP program `XDP_DROP` action. these 493 packets are not counted by other software counters. These packets are 494 counted by physical port and vPort counters. 495 - Informative 496 497 * - `rx[i]_xdp_redirect` 498 - The number of times an XDP redirect action was triggered on ring i. 499 - Acceleration 500 501 * - `tx[i]_xdp_xmit` 502 - The number of packets redirected to the interface(due to XDP redirect). 503 These packets are not counted by other software counters. These packets 504 are counted by physical port and vPort counters. 505 - Informative 506 507 * - `tx[i]_xdp_full` 508 - The number of packets redirected to the interface(due to XDP redirect), 509 but were dropped due to full tx queue. these packets are not counted by 510 other software counters. you may enlarge tx queues. 511 - Informative 512 513 * - `tx[i]_xdp_mpwqe` 514 - Number of multi-packet WQEs offloaded onto the NIC that were 515 `XDP_REDIRECT`-ed from other netdevs. 516 - Acceleration 517 518 * - `tx[i]_xdp_inlnw` 519 - Number of WQE data segments where the data could be inlined in the WQE 520 where the data segments were `XDP_REDIRECT`-ed from other netdevs. 521 - Acceleration 522 523 * - `tx[i]_xdp_nops` 524 - Number of NOP WQEBBs (WQE building blocks) posted to the SQ that were 525 `XDP_REDIRECT`-ed from other netdevs. 526 - Acceleration 527 528 * - `tx[i]_xdp_err` 529 - The number of packets redirected to the interface(due to XDP redirect) 530 but were dropped due to error such as frame too long and frame too short. 531 - Error 532 533 * - `tx[i]_xdp_cqes` 534 - The number of completions received for packets redirected to the 535 interface(due to XDP redirect) on the CQ. 536 - Informative 537 538 * - `tx[i]_xsk_xmit` 539 - The number of packets transmitted using XSK zerocopy functionality. 540 - Acceleration 541 542 * - `tx[i]_xsk_mpwqe` 543 - Number of multi-packet WQEs offloaded onto the NIC that were 544 `XDP_REDIRECT`-ed from other netdevs. 545 - Acceleration 546 547 * - `tx[i]_xsk_inlnw` 548 - Number of WQE data segments where the data could be inlined in the WQE 549 that are transmitted using XSK zerocopy. 550 - Acceleration 551 552 * - `tx[i]_xsk_full` 553 - Number of times doorbell is rung in XSK zerocopy mode when SQ is full. 554 - Error 555 556 * - `tx[i]_xsk_err` 557 - Number of errors that occurred in XSK zerocopy mode such as if the data 558 size is larger than the MTU size. 559 - Error 560 561 * - `tx[i]_xsk_cqes` 562 - Number of CQEs processed in XSK zerocopy mode. 563 - Acceleration 564 565 * - `tx_tls_ctx` 566 - Number of TLS TX HW offload contexts added to device for encryption. 567 - Acceleration 568 569 * - `tx_tls_del` 570 - Number of TLS TX HW offload contexts removed from device (connection 571 closed). 572 - Acceleration 573 574 * - `tx_tls_pool_alloc` 575 - Number of times a unit of work is successfully allocated in the TLS HW 576 offload pool. 577 - Acceleration 578 579 * - `tx_tls_pool_free` 580 - Number of times a unit of work is freed in the TLS HW offload pool. 581 - Acceleration 582 583 * - `rx_tls_ctx` 584 - Number of TLS RX HW offload contexts added to device for decryption. 585 - Acceleration 586 587 * - `rx_tls_del` 588 - Number of TLS RX HW offload contexts deleted from device (connection has 589 finished). 590 - Acceleration 591 592 * - `rx[i]_tls_decrypted_packets` 593 - Number of successfully decrypted RX packets which were part of a TLS 594 stream. 595 - Acceleration 596 597 * - `rx[i]_tls_decrypted_bytes` 598 - Number of TLS payload bytes in RX packets which were successfully 599 decrypted. 600 - Acceleration 601 602 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_req_pkt` 603 - Number of received TLS packets with a resync request. 604 - Acceleration 605 606 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_req_start` 607 - Number of times the TLS async resync request was started. 608 - Acceleration 609 610 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_req_end` 611 - Number of times the TLS async resync request properly ended with 612 providing the HW tracked tcp-seq. 613 - Acceleration 614 615 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_req_skip` 616 - Number of times the TLS async resync request procedure was started but 617 not properly ended. 618 - Error 619 620 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_res_ok` 621 - Number of times the TLS resync response call to the driver was 622 successfully handled. 623 - Acceleration 624 625 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_res_retry` 626 - Number of times the TLS resync response call to the driver was 627 reattempted when ICOSQ is full. 628 - Error 629 630 * - `rx[i]_tls_resync_res_skip` 631 - Number of times the TLS resync response call to the driver was terminated 632 unsuccessfully. 633 - Error 634 635 * - `rx[i]_tls_err` 636 - Number of times when CQE TLS offload was problematic. 637 - Error 638 639 * - `tx[i]_tls_encrypted_packets` 640 - The number of send packets that are TLS encrypted by the kernel. 641 - Acceleration 642 643 * - `tx[i]_tls_encrypted_bytes` 644 - The number of send bytes that are TLS encrypted by the kernel. 645 - Acceleration 646 647 * - `tx[i]_tls_ooo` 648 - Number of times out of order TLS SQE fragments were handled on ring i. 649 - Acceleration 650 651 * - `tx[i]_tls_dump_packets` 652 - Number of TLS decrypted packets copied over from NIC over DMA. 653 - Acceleration 654 655 * - `tx[i]_tls_dump_bytes` 656 - Number of TLS decrypted bytes copied over from NIC over DMA. 657 - Acceleration 658 659 * - `tx[i]_tls_resync_bytes` 660 - Number of TLS bytes requested to be resynchronized in order to be 661 decrypted. 662 - Acceleration 663 664 * - `tx[i]_tls_skip_no_sync_data` 665 - Number of TLS send data that can safely be skipped / do not need to be 666 decrypted. 667 - Acceleration 668 669 * - `tx[i]_tls_drop_no_sync_data` 670 - Number of TLS send data that were dropped due to retransmission of TLS 671 data. 672 - Acceleration 673 674 * - `ptp_cq[i]_abort` 675 - Number of times a CQE has to be skipped in precision time protocol due to 676 a skew between the port timestamp and CQE timestamp being greater than 677 128 seconds. 678 - Error 679 680 * - `ptp_cq[i]_abort_abs_diff_ns` 681 - Accumulation of time differences between the port timestamp and CQE 682 timestamp when the difference is greater than 128 seconds in precision 683 time protocol. 684 - Error 685 686.. [#ring_global] The corresponding ring and global counters do not share the 687 same name (i.e. do not follow the common naming scheme). 688 689vPort Counters 690-------------- 691Counters on the NIC port that is connected to a eSwitch. 692 693.. flat-table:: vPort Counter Table 694 :widths: 2 3 1 695 696 * - Counter 697 - Description 698 - Type 699 700 * - `rx_vport_unicast_packets` 701 - Unicast packets received, steered to a port including Raw Ethernet 702 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 703 - Informative 704 705 * - `rx_vport_unicast_bytes` 706 - Unicast bytes received, steered to a port including Raw Ethernet QP/DPDK 707 traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 708 - Informative 709 710 * - `tx_vport_unicast_packets` 711 - Unicast packets transmitted, steered from a port including Raw Ethernet 712 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 713 - Informative 714 715 * - `tx_vport_unicast_bytes` 716 - Unicast bytes transmitted, steered from a port including Raw Ethernet 717 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 718 - Informative 719 720 * - `rx_vport_multicast_packets` 721 - Multicast packets received, steered to a port including Raw Ethernet 722 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 723 - Informative 724 725 * - `rx_vport_multicast_bytes` 726 - Multicast bytes received, steered to a port including Raw Ethernet 727 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 728 - Informative 729 730 * - `tx_vport_multicast_packets` 731 - Multicast packets transmitted, steered from a port including Raw Ethernet 732 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 733 - Informative 734 735 * - `tx_vport_multicast_bytes` 736 - Multicast bytes transmitted, steered from a port including Raw Ethernet 737 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 738 - Informative 739 740 * - `rx_vport_broadcast_packets` 741 - Broadcast packets received, steered to a port including Raw Ethernet 742 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 743 - Informative 744 745 * - `rx_vport_broadcast_bytes` 746 - Broadcast bytes received, steered to a port including Raw Ethernet 747 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 748 - Informative 749 750 * - `tx_vport_broadcast_packets` 751 - Broadcast packets transmitted, steered from a port including Raw Ethernet 752 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 753 - Informative 754 755 * - `tx_vport_broadcast_bytes` 756 - Broadcast bytes transmitted, steered from a port including Raw Ethernet 757 QP/DPDK traffic, excluding RDMA traffic. 758 - Informative 759 760 * - `rx_vport_rdma_unicast_packets` 761 - RDMA unicast packets received, steered to a port (counters counts 762 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 763 - Acceleration 764 765 * - `rx_vport_rdma_unicast_bytes` 766 - RDMA unicast bytes received, steered to a port (counters counts 767 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 768 - Acceleration 769 770 * - `tx_vport_rdma_unicast_packets` 771 - RDMA unicast packets transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts 772 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 773 - Acceleration 774 775 * - `tx_vport_rdma_unicast_bytes` 776 - RDMA unicast bytes transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts 777 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 778 - Acceleration 779 780 * - `rx_vport_rdma_multicast_packets` 781 - RDMA multicast packets received, steered to a port (counters counts 782 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 783 - Acceleration 784 785 * - `rx_vport_rdma_multicast_bytes` 786 - RDMA multicast bytes received, steered to a port (counters counts 787 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 788 - Acceleration 789 790 * - `tx_vport_rdma_multicast_packets` 791 - RDMA multicast packets transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts 792 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 793 - Acceleration 794 795 * - `tx_vport_rdma_multicast_bytes` 796 - RDMA multicast bytes transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts 797 RoCE/UD/RC traffic) [#accel]_. 798 - Acceleration 799 800 * - `vport_loopback_packets` 801 - Unicast, multicast and broadcast packets that were loop-back (received 802 and transmitted), IB/Eth [#accel]_. 803 - Acceleration 804 805 * - `vport_loopback_bytes` 806 - Unicast, multicast and broadcast bytes that were loop-back (received 807 and transmitted), IB/Eth [#accel]_. 808 - Acceleration 809 810 * - `rx_steer_missed_packets` 811 - Number of packets that was received by the NIC, however was discarded 812 because it did not match any flow in the NIC flow table. 813 - Error 814 815 * - `rx_packets` 816 - Representor only: packets received, that were handled by the hypervisor. 817 - Informative 818 819 * - `rx_bytes` 820 - Representor only: bytes received, that were handled by the hypervisor. 821 - Informative 822 823 * - `tx_packets` 824 - Representor only: packets transmitted, that were handled by the 825 hypervisor. 826 - Informative 827 828 * - `tx_bytes` 829 - Representor only: bytes transmitted, that were handled by the hypervisor. 830 - Informative 831 832 * - `dev_internal_queue_oob` 833 - The number of dropped packets due to lack of receive WQEs for an internal 834 device RQ. 835 - Error 836 837Physical Port Counters 838---------------------- 839The physical port counters are the counters on the external port connecting the 840adapter to the network. This measuring point holds information on standardized 841counters like IEEE 802.3, RFC2863, RFC 2819, RFC 3635 and additional counters 842like flow control, FEC and more. 843 844.. flat-table:: Physical Port Counter Table 845 :widths: 2 3 1 846 847 * - Counter 848 - Description 849 - Type 850 851 * - `rx_packets_phy` 852 - The number of packets received on the physical port. This counter doesn’t 853 include packets that were discarded due to FCS, frame size and similar 854 errors. 855 - Informative 856 857 * - `tx_packets_phy` 858 - The number of packets transmitted on the physical port. 859 - Informative 860 861 * - `rx_bytes_phy` 862 - The number of bytes received on the physical port, including Ethernet 863 header and FCS. 864 - Informative 865 866 * - `tx_bytes_phy` 867 - The number of bytes transmitted on the physical port. 868 - Informative 869 870 * - `rx_multicast_phy` 871 - The number of multicast packets received on the physical port. 872 - Informative 873 874 * - `tx_multicast_phy` 875 - The number of multicast packets transmitted on the physical port. 876 - Informative 877 878 * - `rx_broadcast_phy` 879 - The number of broadcast packets received on the physical port. 880 - Informative 881 882 * - `tx_broadcast_phy` 883 - The number of broadcast packets transmitted on the physical port. 884 - Informative 885 886 * - `rx_crc_errors_phy` 887 - The number of dropped received packets due to FCS (Frame Check Sequence) 888 error on the physical port. If this counter is increased in high rate, 889 check the link quality using `rx_symbol_error_phy` and 890 `rx_corrected_bits_phy` counters below. 891 - Error 892 893 * - `rx_in_range_len_errors_phy` 894 - The number of received packets dropped due to length/type errors on a 895 physical port. 896 - Error 897 898 * - `rx_out_of_range_len_phy` 899 - The number of received packets dropped due to length greater than allowed 900 on a physical port. If this counter is increasing, it implies that the 901 peer connected to the adapter has a larger MTU configured. Using same MTU 902 configuration shall resolve this issue. 903 - Error 904 905 * - `rx_oversize_pkts_phy` 906 - The number of dropped received packets due to length which exceed MTU 907 size on a physical port. If this counter is increasing, it implies that 908 the peer connected to the adapter has a larger MTU configured. Using same 909 MTU configuration shall resolve this issue. 910 - Error 911 912 * - `rx_symbol_err_phy` 913 - The number of received packets dropped due to physical coding errors 914 (symbol errors) on a physical port. 915 - Error 916 917 * - `rx_mac_control_phy` 918 - The number of MAC control packets received on the physical port. 919 - Informative 920 921 * - `tx_mac_control_phy` 922 - The number of MAC control packets transmitted on the physical port. 923 - Informative 924 925 * - `rx_pause_ctrl_phy` 926 - The number of link layer pause packets received on a physical port. If 927 this counter is increasing, it implies that the network is congested and 928 cannot absorb the traffic coming from to the adapter. 929 - Informative 930 931 * - `tx_pause_ctrl_phy` 932 - The number of link layer pause packets transmitted on a physical port. If 933 this counter is increasing, it implies that the NIC is congested and 934 cannot absorb the traffic coming from the network. 935 - Informative 936 937 * - `rx_unsupported_op_phy` 938 - The number of MAC control packets received with unsupported opcode on a 939 physical port. 940 - Error 941 942 * - `rx_discards_phy` 943 - The number of received packets dropped due to lack of buffers on a 944 physical port. If this counter is increasing, it implies that the adapter 945 is congested and cannot absorb the traffic coming from the network. 946 - Error 947 948 * - `tx_discards_phy` 949 - The number of packets which were discarded on transmission, even no 950 errors were detected. the drop might occur due to link in down state, 951 head of line drop, pause from the network, etc. 952 - Error 953 954 * - `tx_errors_phy` 955 - The number of transmitted packets dropped due to a length which exceed 956 MTU size on a physical port. 957 - Error 958 959 * - `rx_undersize_pkts_phy` 960 - The number of received packets dropped due to length which is shorter 961 than 64 bytes on a physical port. If this counter is increasing, it 962 implies that the peer connected to the adapter has a non-standard MTU 963 configured or malformed packet had arrived. 964 - Error 965 966 * - `rx_fragments_phy` 967 - The number of received packets dropped due to a length which is shorter 968 than 64 bytes and has FCS error on a physical port. If this counter is 969 increasing, it implies that the peer connected to the adapter has a 970 non-standard MTU configured. 971 - Error 972 973 * - `rx_jabbers_phy` 974 - The number of received packets d due to a length which is longer than 64 975 bytes and had FCS error on a physical port. 976 - Error 977 978 * - `rx_64_bytes_phy` 979 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 64 bytes. 980 - Informative 981 982 * - `rx_65_to_127_bytes_phy` 983 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 65 to 984 127 bytes. 985 - Informative 986 987 * - `rx_128_to_255_bytes_phy` 988 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 128 to 989 255 bytes. 990 - Informative 991 992 * - `rx_256_to_511_bytes_phy` 993 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 256 to 994 512 bytes. 995 - Informative 996 997 * - `rx_512_to_1023_bytes_phy` 998 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 512 to 999 1023 bytes. 1000 - Informative 1001 1002 * - `rx_1024_to_1518_bytes_phy` 1003 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 1024 to 1004 1518 bytes. 1005 - Informative 1006 1007 * - `rx_1519_to_2047_bytes_phy` 1008 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 1519 to 1009 2047 bytes. 1010 - Informative 1011 1012 * - `rx_2048_to_4095_bytes_phy` 1013 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 2048 to 1014 4095 bytes. 1015 - Informative 1016 1017 * - `rx_4096_to_8191_bytes_phy` 1018 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 4096 to 1019 8191 bytes. 1020 - Informative 1021 1022 * - `rx_8192_to_10239_bytes_phy` 1023 - The number of packets received on the physical port with size of 8192 to 1024 10239 bytes. 1025 - Informative 1026 1027 * - `link_down_events_phy` 1028 - The number of times where the link operative state changed to down. In 1029 case this counter is increasing it may imply on port flapping. You may 1030 need to replace the cable/transceiver. 1031 - Error 1032 1033 * - `rx_out_of_buffer` 1034 - Number of times receive queue had no software buffers allocated for the 1035 adapter's incoming traffic. 1036 - Error 1037 1038 * - `module_bus_stuck` 1039 - The number of times that module's I\ :sup:`2`\C bus (data or clock) 1040 short-wire was detected. You may need to replace the cable/transceiver. 1041 - Error 1042 1043 * - `module_high_temp` 1044 - The number of times that the module temperature was too high. If this 1045 issue persist, you may need to check the ambient temperature or replace 1046 the cable/transceiver module. 1047 - Error 1048 1049 * - `module_bad_shorted` 1050 - The number of times that the module cables were shorted. You may need to 1051 replace the cable/transceiver module. 1052 - Error 1053 1054 * - `module_unplug` 1055 - The number of times that module was ejected. 1056 - Informative 1057 1058 * - `rx_buffer_passed_thres_phy` 1059 - The number of events where the port receive buffer was over 85% full. 1060 - Informative 1061 1062 * - `tx_pause_storm_warning_events` 1063 - The number of times the device was sending pauses for a long period of 1064 time. 1065 - Informative 1066 1067 * - `tx_pause_storm_error_events` 1068 - The number of times the device was sending pauses for a long period of 1069 time, reaching time out and disabling transmission of pause frames. on 1070 the period where pause frames were disabled, drop could have been 1071 occurred. 1072 - Error 1073 1074 * - `rx[i]_buff_alloc_err` 1075 - Failed to allocate a buffer to received packet (or SKB) on ring i. 1076 - Error 1077 1078 * - `rx_bits_phy` 1079 - This counter provides information on the total amount of traffic that 1080 could have been received and can be used as a guideline to measure the 1081 ratio of errored traffic in `rx_pcs_symbol_err_phy` and 1082 `rx_corrected_bits_phy`. 1083 - Informative 1084 1085 * - `rx_pcs_symbol_err_phy` 1086 - This counter counts the number of symbol errors that wasn’t corrected by 1087 FEC correction algorithm or that FEC algorithm was not active on this 1088 interface. If this counter is increasing, it implies that the link 1089 between the NIC and the network is suffering from high BER, and that 1090 traffic is lost. You may need to replace the cable/transceiver. The error 1091 rate is the number of `rx_pcs_symbol_err_phy` divided by the number of 1092 `rx_bits_phy` on a specific time frame. 1093 - Error 1094 1095 * - `rx_corrected_bits_phy` 1096 - The number of corrected bits on this port according to active FEC 1097 (RS/FC). If this counter is increasing, it implies that the link between 1098 the NIC and the network is suffering from high BER. The corrected bit 1099 rate is the number of `rx_corrected_bits_phy` divided by the number of 1100 `rx_bits_phy` on a specific time frame. 1101 - Error 1102 1103 * - `rx_err_lane_[l]_phy` 1104 - This counter counts the number of physical raw errors per lane l index. 1105 The counter counts errors before FEC corrections. If this counter is 1106 increasing, it implies that the link between the NIC and the network is 1107 suffering from high BER, and that traffic might be lost. You may need to 1108 replace the cable/transceiver. Please check in accordance with 1109 `rx_corrected_bits_phy`. 1110 - Error 1111 1112 * - `rx_global_pause` 1113 - The number of pause packets received on the physical port. If this 1114 counter is increasing, it implies that the network is congested and 1115 cannot absorb the traffic coming from the adapter. Note: This counter is 1116 only enabled when global pause mode is enabled. 1117 - Informative 1118 1119 * - `rx_global_pause_duration` 1120 - The duration of pause received (in microSec) on the physical port. The 1121 counter represents the time the port did not send any traffic. If this 1122 counter is increasing, it implies that the network is congested and 1123 cannot absorb the traffic coming from the adapter. Note: This counter is 1124 only enabled when global pause mode is enabled. 1125 - Informative 1126 1127 * - `tx_global_pause` 1128 - The number of pause packets transmitted on a physical port. If this 1129 counter is increasing, it implies that the adapter is congested and 1130 cannot absorb the traffic coming from the network. Note: This counter is 1131 only enabled when global pause mode is enabled. 1132 - Informative 1133 1134 * - `tx_global_pause_duration` 1135 - The duration of pause transmitter (in microSec) on the physical port. 1136 Note: This counter is only enabled when global pause mode is enabled. 1137 - Informative 1138 1139 * - `rx_global_pause_transition` 1140 - The number of times a transition from Xoff to Xon on the physical port 1141 has occurred. Note: This counter is only enabled when global pause mode 1142 is enabled. 1143 - Informative 1144 1145 * - `rx_if_down_packets` 1146 - The number of received packets that were dropped due to interface down. 1147 - Informative 1148 1149Priority Port Counters 1150---------------------- 1151The following counters are physical port counters that are counted per L2 1152priority (0-7). 1153 1154**Note:** `p` in the counter name represents the priority. 1155 1156.. flat-table:: Priority Port Counter Table 1157 :widths: 2 3 1 1158 1159 * - Counter 1160 - Description 1161 - Type 1162 1163 * - `rx_prio[p]_bytes` 1164 - The number of bytes received with priority p on the physical port. 1165 - Informative 1166 1167 * - `rx_prio[p]_packets` 1168 - The number of packets received with priority p on the physical port. 1169 - Informative 1170 1171 * - `tx_prio[p]_bytes` 1172 - The number of bytes transmitted on priority p on the physical port. 1173 - Informative 1174 1175 * - `tx_prio[p]_packets` 1176 - The number of packets transmitted on priority p on the physical port. 1177 - Informative 1178 1179 * - `rx_prio[p]_pause` 1180 - The number of pause packets received with priority p on a physical port. 1181 If this counter is increasing, it implies that the network is congested 1182 and cannot absorb the traffic coming from the adapter. Note: This counter 1183 is available only if PFC was enabled on priority p. 1184 - Informative 1185 1186 * - `rx_prio[p]_pause_duration` 1187 - The duration of pause received (in microSec) on priority p on the 1188 physical port. The counter represents the time the port did not send any 1189 traffic on this priority. If this counter is increasing, it implies that 1190 the network is congested and cannot absorb the traffic coming from the 1191 adapter. Note: This counter is available only if PFC was enabled on 1192 priority p. 1193 - Informative 1194 1195 * - `rx_prio[p]_pause_transition` 1196 - The number of times a transition from Xoff to Xon on priority p on the 1197 physical port has occurred. Note: This counter is available only if PFC 1198 was enabled on priority p. 1199 - Informative 1200 1201 * - `tx_prio[p]_pause` 1202 - The number of pause packets transmitted on priority p on a physical port. 1203 If this counter is increasing, it implies that the adapter is congested 1204 and cannot absorb the traffic coming from the network. Note: This counter 1205 is available only if PFC was enabled on priority p. 1206 - Informative 1207 1208 * - `tx_prio[p]_pause_duration` 1209 - The duration of pause transmitter (in microSec) on priority p on the 1210 physical port. Note: This counter is available only if PFC was enabled on 1211 priority p. 1212 - Informative 1213 1214 * - `rx_prio[p]_buf_discard` 1215 - The number of packets discarded by device due to lack of per host receive 1216 buffers. 1217 - Informative 1218 1219 * - `rx_prio[p]_cong_discard` 1220 - The number of packets discarded by device due to per host congestion. 1221 - Informative 1222 1223 * - `rx_prio[p]_marked` 1224 - The number of packets ecn marked by device due to per host congestion. 1225 - Informative 1226 1227 * - `rx_prio[p]_discards` 1228 - The number of packets discarded by device due to lack of receive buffers. 1229 - Informative 1230 1231Device Counters 1232--------------- 1233.. flat-table:: Device Counter Table 1234 :widths: 2 3 1 1235 1236 * - Counter 1237 - Description 1238 - Type 1239 1240 * - `rx_pci_signal_integrity` 1241 - Counts physical layer PCIe signal integrity errors, the number of 1242 transitions to recovery due to Framing errors and CRC (dlp and tlp). If 1243 this counter is raising, try moving the adapter card to a different slot 1244 to rule out a bad PCI slot. Validate that you are running with the latest 1245 firmware available and latest server BIOS version. 1246 - Error 1247 1248 * - `tx_pci_signal_integrity` 1249 - Counts physical layer PCIe signal integrity errors, the number of 1250 transition to recovery initiated by the other side (moving to recovery 1251 due to getting TS/EIEOS). If this counter is raising, try moving the 1252 adapter card to a different slot to rule out a bad PCI slot. Validate 1253 that you are running with the latest firmware available and latest server 1254 BIOS version. 1255 - Error 1256 1257 * - `outbound_pci_buffer_overflow` 1258 - The number of packets dropped due to pci buffer overflow. If this counter 1259 is raising in high rate, it might indicate that the receive traffic rate 1260 for a host is larger than the PCIe bus and therefore a congestion occurs. 1261 - Informative 1262 1263 * - `outbound_pci_stalled_rd` 1264 - The percentage (in the range 0...100) of time within the last second that 1265 the NIC had outbound non-posted reads requests but could not perform the 1266 operation due to insufficient posted credits. 1267 - Informative 1268 1269 * - `outbound_pci_stalled_wr` 1270 - The percentage (in the range 0...100) of time within the last second that 1271 the NIC had outbound posted writes requests but could not perform the 1272 operation due to insufficient posted credits. 1273 - Informative 1274 1275 * - `outbound_pci_stalled_rd_events` 1276 - The number of seconds where `outbound_pci_stalled_rd` was above 30%. 1277 - Informative 1278 1279 * - `outbound_pci_stalled_wr_events` 1280 - The number of seconds where `outbound_pci_stalled_wr` was above 30%. 1281 - Informative 1282 1283 * - `dev_out_of_buffer` 1284 - The number of times the device owned queue had not enough buffers 1285 allocated. 1286 - Error 1287