What is the meaning of 'rxbds_empty' counter for tg3 driver?
Issue
Card statistics shows that rxbds_empty counter is raising:
$ ethtool -S eth2
NIC statistics:
rxbds_empty: 129258
rx_discards: 5955899
Environment
- Red Hat Linux Server 6.5
- kmod-tg3-3.137h-2.rhel6u5.x86_64 (third party tg3 driver)
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