From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: [PATCH 0/2] net: qcom/emac: the emac driver requires pause frames Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:40:17 -0500 Message-ID: <5818E191.4020601@codeaurora.org> References: <1478025055-13167-1-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Miller , Florian Fainelli , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:40652 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752077AbcKASkT (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:40:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1478025055-13167-1-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The qcom emac driver experiences significant packet loss (through frame check sequence errors) if flow control is not enabled and the phy is not configured to allow pause frames to pass through it. Therefore, we need to force enable flow control and force the phy to pass pause frames. -- Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.