Re: [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface

Thomas Graf wrote:

* Patrick McHardy [off-list ref] 2008-06-11 19:50

quoted

Thomas Graf wrote:

quoted

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