On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:43:06 +0200 Vladimir Oltean wrote: > In some applications, it is important to create resource reservations in > the Ethernet switches, to prevent background traffic, or deliberate > attacks, from inducing denial of service into the high-priority traffic. > > These patches give the user some knobs to turn. The ocelot switches > support per-port and per-port-tc reservations, on ingress and on egress. > The resources that are monitored are packet buffers (in cells of 60 > bytes each) and frame references. > > The frames that exceed the reservations can optionally consume from > sharing watermarks which are not per-port but global across the switch. > There are 10 sharing watermarks, 8 of them are per traffic class and 2 > are per drop priority. > > I am configuring the hardware using the best of my knowledge, and mostly > through trial and error. Same goes for devlink-sb integration. Feedback > is welcome.
This no longer applies.
