On 9/10/19 11:26 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 04:41:47PM +0100, Robert Beckett wrote: >> This enables us to negoatiate pause frame transmission to prioritise >> packet delivery over throughput. > > I don't think we can unconditionally enable this. It is a big > behaviour change, and it is likely to break running systems. It has > affects on QoS, packet prioritisation, etc. > > I think there needs to be a configuration knob. But unfortunately, i > don't know of a good place to put this knob. The switch CPU port is > not visible in any way.
Broadcast storm suppression is to be solved at ingress, not on the CPU port, once this lands on the CPU port, it's game over already. -- Florian
