From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:17:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4850F7CE.1040402@trash.net> References: <20080605.074324.38999631.davem@davemloft.net> <20080611175156.GR20815@postel.suug.ch> <48501083.2040006@trash.net> <20080611212844.GT20815@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" , David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Graf Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:35525 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754313AbYFLKRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:17:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080611212844.GT20815@postel.suug.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thomas Graf wrote: > * Patrick McHardy 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