From: Inbar Karmy <inb...@mellanox.com>
In the event where the device unexpectedly becomes unresponsive
for a long period of time, flow control mechanism may propagate
pause frames which will cause congestion spreading to the entire
network.
To prevent this scenario, when the device is stalled for a period
longer than a pre-configured timeout, flow control mechanisms are
automatically disabled.
This patch adds support for the ETHTOOL_PFC_STALL_PREVENTION
as a tunable.
This API provides support for configuring flow control storm prevention
timeout (msec).
Signed-off-by: Inbar Karmy <inb...@mellanox.com>
Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com>
---
include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 4 ++++
net/core/ethtool.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
index 20da156aaf64..9dc63a14a747 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -217,10 +217,14 @@ struct ethtool_value {
__u32 data;
};
+#define PFC_STORM_PREVENTION_AUTO 0xffff
+#define PFC_STORM_PREVENTION_DISABLE 0
+
enum tunable_id {
ETHTOOL_ID_UNSPEC,
ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK,
ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK,
+ ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT,
/*
* Add your fresh new tubale attribute above and remember to update
* tunable_strings[] in net/core/ethtool.c
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 157cd9efa4be..bb6e498c6e3d 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ tunable_strings[__ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] =
{
[ETHTOOL_ID_UNSPEC] = "Unspec",
[ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK] = "rx-copybreak",
[ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK] = "tx-copybreak",
+ [ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT] = "pfc-prevention-tout",
};
static const char
@@ -2311,6 +2312,11 @@ static int ethtool_tunable_valid(const struct
ethtool_tunable *tuna)
tuna->type_id != ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_U32)
return -EINVAL;
break;
+ case ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT:
+ if (tuna->len != sizeof(u16) ||
+ tuna->type_id != ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_U16)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
--
2.14.3
