[net-next V4 0/5] net: ethtool: Track TX pause storm
From: Mohsin Bashir <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-02 23:01:55
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With TX pause enabled, if a device cannot deliver received frames to the stack (e.g., during a system hang), it may generate excessive pause frames causing a pause storm. This series updates the uAPI to track TX pause storm events as part of the pause stats (p1), proposes using the existing pfc-prevention-tout knob to configure the storm watchdog (p2), adds pause storm protection support for fbnic (p3), and leverages p1 to provide observability into these events for the fbnic (p4) and mlx5 (p5) drivers. Changelog: - V4: Drop RFC. No feedback received on V3. - V3(RFC): https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260223174914.74461-1-mohsin.bashr@gmail.com/ (local) - V2: https://lore.kernel.org/20260207010525.3808842-1-mohsin.bashr@gmail.com/ (local) - V1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260122192158.428882-1-mohsin.bashr@gmail.com/ (local) Mohsin Bashir (5): net: ethtool: Track pause storm events net: ethtool: Update doc for tunable eth: fbnic: Add protection against pause storm eth: fbnic: Fetch TX pause storm stats eth: mlx5: Move pause storm errors to pause stats Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml | 13 ++ .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_stats.c | 30 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic.h | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_csr.h | 11 ++ .../net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_ethtool.c | 46 ++++++++ .../net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_hw_stats.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_irq.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_mac.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_mac.h | 27 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_pci.c | 5 + include/linux/ethtool.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 2 +- .../uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h | 1 + net/ethtool/pause.c | 4 +- 14 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.47.3