Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/hyperv: Add flow control based on hi/lowwatermark

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Mar 28 2012 - 16:56:23 EST


From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:05:00 +0100

> On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 19:12 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 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.
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