rx-out-of-buffer

Hi Community,

I'd like to understand better a problem we have, which seems to be linked to the fact that DPDK's xstats/ethtool -S shows a lot of "rx-out-of-buffer" packets. I found the performance counter document, but it does not say much about why this could happen, which buffer we're speaking about. I quote "Number of times  receive queue had no software buffers allocated for the adapter's incoming traffic.". As rx_nombufs (DPDK stats) is 0 I guess it does not mean that there is not enough software buffers. Are they some internal MLX buffers? What can be done to prevent that?

Thanks,

Tom