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From: "Sullivan, Catherine" <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [NET_NEXT RFC PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: added netdev_ops file to debugfs
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 22:29:14 +0000
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> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@vyatta.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:36 PM
> 
> On Thu, 10 May 2012 21:14:49 +0000
> "Sullivan, Catherine" <catherine.sullivan@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was aware of this, however this does not allow a call to the
> ndo_tx_timeout function which is what my patch does. Is there a way to
> do this with sysfs? I could not find this functionality.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 1:32 PM
> >
> > From: "Sullivan, Catherine" <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
> > Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:28:28 +0000
> >
> > > Could you point me to where this is available in sysfs please? I'm
> > > not familiar with it.
> >
> > Is the 'find' program not properly functioning on your computer?
> >
> > [davem@drr net-next]$ find /sys -type f -name tx_timeout
> > /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/queues/tx-0/tx_timeout
> > /sys/devices/virtual/net/redhat0/queues/tx-0/tx_timeout
> >
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:06:00.0/net/p34p1/queues/tx-
> > 0/tx_timeout
> > [davem@drr net-next]$
> 
> Are you trying to induce timeout for some tests or code coverage?

Yes, we are using this for testing and debugging purposes.