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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no>,
	corbet@lwn.net, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, kernel@pengutronix.de,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 06/10] net: dsa: lan9303: added sysfs node swe_bcst_throt
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:32:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170727133202.GA1875@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170727132625.GA18666@lunn.ch>

Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 03:26:25PM CEST, andrew@lunn.ch wrote:
>> Yes, this setting can be used to reduce effect of broadcast storms.
>
>So one way to solve this is to teach the software bridge about
>broadcast storm control. Put some rate limiting into its broadcast
>flood handling. Then add a switchdev call which passes this down into
>the switch.
>
>Or look at doing it via TC. It is just a filter selecting broadcast
>traffic and applying some shaping, which is what TC is all about.

Ack. This is probably the way to do this. Definitelly no sysfs knob...

>
>Generic solutions which can be used by all switches are likely to be
>accepted.
>
>	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-27 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-25 16:15 [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: dsa: lan9303: unicast offload, fdb,mdb,STP Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Fixed MDIO interface Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 19:15   ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-26 12:18     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 14:30       ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-26 14:50         ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 17:52         ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-26 20:07           ` David Miller
2017-07-26 20:47             ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 21:39               ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-26 16:55   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-28 11:08     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-28 13:36       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27  7:07   ` kbuild test robot
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Do not disable/enable switch fabric port 0 at startup Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 16:58   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 10:39     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Refactor lan9303_enable_packet_processing() Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Added adjust_link() method Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 17:09   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 10:45     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/10] net: dsa: added dsa_net_device_to_dsa_port() Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/10] net: dsa: lan9303: added sysfs node swe_bcst_throt Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 17:14   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 10:59     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-27 13:26       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 13:32         ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Added basic offloading of unicast traffic Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 17:24   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 11:21     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-27 13:31       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 14:07         ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-27  0:17   ` kbuild test robot
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Added ALR/fdb/mdb handling Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-26 17:41   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-27 11:04     ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Added Documentation/networking/dsa/lan9303.txt Egil Hjelmeland
2017-07-25 16:15 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Only allocate 3 ports Egil Hjelmeland

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