netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/hyperv: Add flow control based on hi/low watermark

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:54:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	olaf@...fle.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/hyperv: Add flow control based on hi/low
 watermark

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
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@...uxfoundation.org>
>> 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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