mellanox/mlx5/counters.rst

5 Ethtool counters
22 addition, each group of counters may have different counter types.
53                | Uplink (no counters)                                                        |
58                        | MPFS (no counters)                                          |
68   Software counters populated by the driver stack.
71   An aggregation of software ring counters.
73 vPort 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.
78 Physical port counters
79   Counters that collect statistics about the PFs and VFs. May indicate issues
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
85 Priority Port Counters
86   A set of the physical port counters, per priority per port.
91 Counters are divided into three types.
93 Traffic Informative Counters
94   Counters which count traffic. These counters can be used for load estimation
97 Traffic 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.
104 Error Counters
105   Increment of these counters might indicate a problem. Each of these counters
117 XSK, PTP, and QoS counters that are similar to counters defined previously will
120 counters, except `ptp_tx[i]_packets` is only counted when precision time
125 The following counters are available per ring or software port.
127 These counters provide information on the amount of traffic that was accelerated
128 by the NIC. The counters are counting the accelerated traffic in addition to the
129 standard counters which counts it (i.e. accelerated traffic is counted twice).
131 The counter names in the table below refers to both ring and port counters. The
132 notation for ring counters includes the [i] index without the braces. The
133 notation for port counters doesn't include the [i]. A counter name
496        software counters. These packets are counted by physical port and vPort
497        counters.
517        are not counted by other software counters. These packets are counted by
518        physical port and vPort counters. You may open more rx queues and spread
533        packets are not counted by other software counters. These packets are
534        counted by physical port and vPort counters.
543        These packets are not counted by other software counters. These packets
544        are counted by physical port and vPort counters.
550        other software counters. you may enlarge tx queues.
738 .. [#ring_global] The corresponding ring and global counters do not share the
741 vPort Counters
743 Counters on the NIC port that is connected to a eSwitch.
813      - RDMA unicast packets received, steered to a port (counters counts
818      - RDMA unicast bytes received, steered to a port (counters counts
823      - RDMA unicast packets transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts
828      - RDMA unicast bytes transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts
833      - RDMA multicast packets received, steered to a port (counters counts
838      - RDMA multicast bytes received, steered to a port (counters counts
843      - RDMA multicast packets transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts
848      - RDMA multicast bytes transmitted, steered from a port (counters counts
889 Physical Port Counters
891 The physical port counters are the counters on the external port connecting the
893 counters like IEEE 802.3, RFC2863, RFC 2819, RFC 3635 and additional counters
942        `rx_corrected_bits_phy` counters below.
1206 Priority Port Counters
1208 The following counters are physical port counters that are counted per L2
1288 Device Counters