netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:17:50 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> 2008-06-11 19:50
>> Thomas Graf wrote:
>>> Another area of interest is sending congestion frames on our own. We
>>> could finally implement real ingress software shaping and turn every
>>> linux system into a DCB capable node.
>> There was a qdisc submission for a scheduler called "pace" (IIRC)
>> that did this. It needed some cleanups before merging, but nothing
>> grave.
> 
> Do you know if it used congestion notifcation on link level? I can't
> seem to find the posting.

They're using PAUSE frames. The latest submission I could find is:

http://marc.info/?t=119625135300006&r=1&w=2
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