Re: BNX Double Buffer Allocation

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> This I'm not sure. A kernel built with 'options MBUFTRACE' should give
> more details about this, but I don't know which tools allows to see
> the infos. Maybe netstat will notice if a kernel is compiled with or without
> MBUFTRACE.

  netstat -mss

$ netstat -mss
626 mbufs in use:
        625 mbufs allocated to data
        1 mbufs allocated to packet headers
2 calls to protocol drain routines
                                             small        ext    cluster
             tcp               inuse             1          0          0
             tcp tx            inuse             2          0          0
            bge2 tx            inuse           112         37         37
            bge1 tx            inuse             3          0          0
         unknown data          inuse           512        512        512

  In this case, the unknown data are the receive ring buffers allocated by 
the two bge interfaces, i.e. 256 mbuf clusters for each interface [the bge 
driver doesn't "tag" the mbufs like other drivers do].

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
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