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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, m-karicheri2@ti.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andrew@lunn.ch
Subject: Re: Enable and configure storm prevention in a network device
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:35:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75eb56a4-ded2-5ed5-116c-776312f93cf3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180405.162031.2009953983418308744.davem@davemloft.net>

On 04/05/2018 01:20 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.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.
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-05 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-05 20:14 Enable and configure storm prevention in a network device Murali Karicheri
2018-04-05 20:20 ` David Miller
2018-04-05 22:35   ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2018-04-06 14:30     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-09 15:13       ` Murali Karicheri
2018-04-09 15:18         ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-09 14:33     ` Murali Karicheri

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