>> Hi all, >> is there a possibility to set the rate limiting for the 6390 with linux >> tools? >> I've seen that the driver will init all to zero, so rate limiting is >> disabled, >> but there is no solution for it in the ip tool? >> >> The only thing I found for rate limiting is the tc tool, but I guess this is >> only a software solution? > Hi Benjamin > > In Linux, we accelerate the software solution by offloading it to the > hardware. So TC is what you need here. > >> Furthermore, does exist a table or a tutorial which functions DSA supports? >> The background is that we are using the DSDT driver (in future maybe the UMSD >> driver) but we would like to switch to the in kernel DSA entirely. And our >> software is using some of the DSDT functions, so I have to find an >> alternative to these functions. > The DSA framework supports offloading TC. There was some patches a > while back adding ingress rate limiting to one of the DSA drivers, via > TC. I forget which, and i don't think they have been merged yet. If > you can find the patchset, it should give you a good idea how you can > implement support in the mv88e6xxx driver. > > Andrew
Hi Andrew, I've searched the netdev mailing list for DSA and traffic, but can't find anything about rate limiting till 2016. Do you have a hint, how I can find it? Do you know if the patchset was for Marvell or maybe for another company? Cheers, Benjamin
