On Sun, 2017-03-26 at 10:55 -0700, John Fastabend wrote: > On 17-03-26 03:11 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > It's not 100% clear to me looking at various drivers what is > > considered "rx_pause" and what is "tx_pause" (from the ethtool > > terminology). > > > > Is "rx_pause" about receiving pause frame to throttle the transmitter > > or is it about sending pause frames when the receiver gets full ? > > > > Thanks, > > Ben. > > > > The common implementation, at least on the Intel devices, is rx_pause > should be enabled so the device will respond to receiving a pause frame, e.g. > stop sending packets. And tx_pause is for enabling/disabling sending of > pause frames.
Thanks, I'll have my driver match that. Cheers, Ben.
