netdev - Re: Enable and configure storm prevention in a network device

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Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 10:33:49 -0400
From:   Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: Enable and configure storm prevention in a network device

On 04/05/2018 06:35 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 04/05/2018 01:20 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
>> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:14:49 -0400
>>
>>> Is there a standard way to implement and configure storm prevention
>>> in a Linux network device?
>>
>> What kind of "storm", an interrupt storm?
>>
> 
> I would assume Murali is referring to L2 broadcast storms which is
> common in switches. There is not an API for that AFAICT and I am not
> sure what a proper API would look like.
> 
Thanks Florian for adding more details. Yes, I am referring to
L2 broadcast or multicast storm. At this point I don't see a reason
why to exclude unicast storm as well if the hardware has the capability.


-- 
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone