Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:30:32 -0700 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring flow control for network interfaces Message-ID: <20100518173032.GC5968@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <201005181315.37609.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201005181315.37609.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:15:37PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > I think it would be useful if we could pick a device-independent interface for > configuring flow control on network interfaces, perhaps as media options via > ifconfig. I know that the msk(4) driver allows RX and TX flow control to be > toggled via the link0 and link1 flags (the manpage for msk(4) needs updating > on this topic I think). I have a hack for work to disable TX flow control on The hack used in e1000phy(4), brgphy(4) and ip1000phy(4) should be removed. > cxgb(4), but it doesn't use flow control currently. Is flow control ethernet- > specific? If so, perhaps we could add two new flags for RX and TX flow > control to the Ethernet-specific options in that case? Do folks have other > ideas? > AFAIK marius@ is working on it and may have latest patches.
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