On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 20:17 -0700, Ani Sinha wrote:

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Correct. Now if you combine the two cases, we increment the rx count
for tagged packets in  vlan_do_receive() and then in "another_round",
if pt_prev is null, we also increment the rx_dropped.

Thats the way its done in a NIC driver.

We increment rx_{bytes|packets} counters before giving the packet to the
upper stack.

Then the stack might drop the packet and increment rx_dropped.

thanks for the clarification. So basically what this means is that
from the numbers reported by ifconfig for example, rx-dropped is the
true rx value.