ixgbe patch to provide NIC's tx/rx counters via ethtool
When LRO is enabled, the received packet and byte counters represent the LRO'd packets, not the packets/bytes on the wire. The Intel 82599 NIC has registers that keep count of the physical packets. Add these counters to the ethtool stats. The byte counters are 36-bit, but the high 4 bits were being ignored in the 2.6.31 ixgbe driver: Read those as well to allow longer time between polling the stats to detect wraps. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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