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I discussed it with Andrew earlier last year, and his response was:

 DT configuration of pause for fixed link probably is
sufficient. I don't  remember it ever been really discussed for
DSA. It was a Melanox  discussion about limiting pause for the
CPU. So I think it is safe to  not implement ethtool -A, at
least until somebody has a real use case  for it.

So I chose not to support it - no point supporting features that
people aren't using. If you have a "real use case" then it can be added.

This patch may be sufficient - I haven't fully considered all the
implications of changing this though.

Did you try this patch? What's the outcome?

For me patch worked as expected.

Hi Stefan

Russell's patch allows it, but i would be interested in knows why you actually
need it. What is your use case for changing this on the fly?

	 Andrew

Usually, user prefer have the capability disable/enable flow control on the fly.
For example:
Armada connected by 10G fixed link to SOHO switch and SOHO has 10 external 1G LAN interfaces.
When we have 2 flows (from Armada to LAN) from two different ports, we have an obvious congestion issue.
Bursts on 10G interface would cause FC frames on Armada<->SOHO 10G port and one flow would affect another.
In some use cases, the user would prefer lossless traffic and keep FC, for another use case (probably UDP streaming) disable FC.

Regards,
Stefan.