Re: [PATCH v2] igb: add rx drop enable attribute

2019-09-13 Thread Brown, Aaron F
On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 15:21 +0100, Robert Beckett wrote: > To allow userland to enable or disable dropping packets when descriptor > ring is exhausted, add RX_DROP_EN private flag. > > This can be used in conjunction with flow control to mitigate packet storms > (e.g. due to network loop or DoS) b

[PATCH v2] igb: add rx drop enable attribute

2019-09-09 Thread Robert Beckett
To allow userland to enable or disable dropping packets when descriptor ring is exhausted, add RX_DROP_EN private flag. This can be used in conjunction with flow control to mitigate packet storms (e.g. due to network loop or DoS) by forcing the network adapter to send pause frames whenever the rin