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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: timur@codeaurora.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [for 4.13] net: qcom/emac: disable flow control autonegotiation by default
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:36:29 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170802.113629.1593218394678804041.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <290fdd25-7e05-57c8-8f89-52bb3bae1e59@codeaurora.org>

From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:23:18 -0500

> It's practically impossible to overload the chip such that it can't
> process the incoming packets fast enough.  I don't know of any
> real-world situation where the EMAC needs to transmit pause frames.

Slow cpus or very expensive stack operations can cause this, it's not
a property of the EMAC chip at all.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-02 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-01 21:37 [PATCH 0/2] net: qcom/emac: fixes for pause frame floods Timur Tabi
2017-08-01 21:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] [for 4.13] net: qcom/emac: disable flow control autonegotiation by default Timur Tabi
2017-08-01 21:55   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-08-01 22:02     ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-01 22:08       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-08-01 23:15   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-02  0:56     ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02  2:58       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-02  3:22         ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02 13:48   ` David Laight
2017-08-02 14:21     ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02 14:51       ` David Laight
2017-08-02 15:08         ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02 15:38           ` David Laight
2017-08-02 17:54   ` David Miller
2017-08-02 18:23     ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02 18:35       ` David Miller
2017-08-02 18:39         ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02 23:15           ` David Miller
2017-08-03  1:00             ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-02 18:36       ` David Miller [this message]
2017-08-01 21:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: qcom/emac: add software control for pause frame mode Timur Tabi
2017-08-01 21:51   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-08-01 22:00     ` Timur Tabi
2017-08-01 22:06       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-09-12 22:07   ` Timur Tabi

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