From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758708Ab2C1U42 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:56:28 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:56440 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752267Ab2C1U41 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:56:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120328.165417.1083579824641543055.davem@davemloft.net> To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, haiyangz@microsoft.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/hyperv: Add flow control based on hi/low watermark From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1332957900.2624.38.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <20120326231017.GA30684@kroah.com> <20120326.191237.2192763107267474232.davem@davemloft.net> <1332957900.2624.38.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ben Hutchings Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:05:00 +0100 > On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 19:12 -0400, David Miller wrote: >> From: Greg KH >> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:10:17 -0700 >> >> > David, please do NOT apply this as-is. >> >> BTW, ethtool had controls exactly for stuff like this. > > Not sure what you're thinking of...? We have pause frame control but I > don't think that's applicable. As I understand this, this situation is really about interrupt flow control, and for that we have the interrupt moderation ethtool settings.