Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_net: add rx-alloc-fail counter

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.virtualization,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:09:29 +0800 Longjun Tang wrote:
> Count the cases where the driver fails to allocate a buffer or an skb,
> such as when try_fill_recv() fails with ENOMEM, and report them via the
> rx-alloc-fail qstat.
> 
> Plumb alloc-fail into virtnet_get_base_stats() to keep this new stat
> reported consistently at both queue and device scope, matching how
> packets, bytes, stop and wake are handled.

The stats handling in virtio_net is super convoluted but AFAICT
your patch is good. Unfortunately, net-next is closed right now
(merge window) to you will have to repost next week.

Maybe you can try to cover more allocation failures per:
https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/[email protected]
Or add a sentence or two to the commit message that we do not intend
to cover 100% of cases where packet is dropped.
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