Sun Microsystems Ethernet PCI-X Adapter - Manual (Page 47)

Chapter 3 Configuring Driver Parameters 31
rx_new_pages Number of pages that got replaced during reception.
rx_no_buf Number of times the hardware cannot receive data because there
is no more receive buffer space.
rx_nocanput Number of packets dropped due to full STREAMS message
queue.
rx_no_comp_wb Number of times the hardware cannot post completion entries for
received data.
rx_nxt_drops Number of times a page with a split packet was dropped because
the driver was unable to map a new one to replace it.
rx_ov_flow Number of packets dropped due to full h/w FIFO.
rx_pkts_dropped Number of packets dropped due to service FIFO.
rx_reused_pgs Number of times driver able to reuse a system page.
rx_split_pkts Number of packets that were split across two pages.
snaptime System snapshot time in seconds.
trunk_mode A value of 1 indicates that a link is aggregated.
tx_allocb_fail Number of times driver failed to duplicate a packet on transmit.
tx_ddi_pkts Number of packets that used DDI_DMA.
tx_dma_bind_fail Number of times a page table entry was not available to enable
the driver to map the kernel memory to device-accessible
memory for transmission.
tx_dvma_pkts Number of packets that used dvma.
tx_hdr_pkts Number of packets that used bcopy (buffer copy).
tx_jumbo_pkts Number of packets greater that Ethernet MTU of 1522.
tx_max_pend Maximum number of transmits pending on any of the four
queues.
tx_msgdup_fail Number of times driver failed to duplicate a packet for
promiscuous stream.
tx_no_desc Number of tx packets dropped due to full descriptor ring.
tx _ starts Number of times that the driver attempted to transmit a packet.
xcvr_addr GMII/MII physical layer device address for management
interface.
TABLE 3-6 Receive and Transmit Parameters
Parameter Description