>-----Original Message----- >From: Chandran, Sugesh >Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:30 PM >To: diproiet...@ovn.org; Bodireddy, Bhanuprakash ><bhanuprakash.bodire...@intel.com>; dev@openvswitch.org >Cc: Chandran, Sugesh <sugesh.chand...@intel.com> >Subject: [PATCH v2] netdev-dpdk: Add Flow Control support. > >Add support for flow-control(mac control frame) to DPDK enabled physical >port types. By default, the flow-control is OFF on both rx and tx side. >The flow control can be enabled/disabled either when adding a port to OVS or >at run time. > >For eg: >To enable flow control support at tx side while adding a port, add the >'tx-flow- >ctrl' option to the 'ovs-vsctl add-port' command-line as below. > > 'ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- \ > set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk options:tx-flow-ctrl=true' > >Similarly to enable rx flow control, > 'ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- \ > set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk options:rx-flow-ctrl=true' > >And to enable the flow control auto-negotiation, 'ovs-vsctl add-port br0 >dpdk0 -- \ > set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk options:flow-ctrl-autoneg=true' > >To turn ON the tx flow control at run time(After the port is being added to >OVS), the command-line input will be, 'ovs-vsctl set Interface dpdk0 >options:tx-flow-ctrl=true' > >The flow control parameters can be turned off by setting 'false' to the >respective parameter. To dsiable the flow control at tx side, 'ovs-vsctl set >Interface dpdk0 options:tx-flow-ctrl=false' > >Signed-off-by: Sugesh Chandran <sugesh.chand...@intel.com>
LGTM, I tested it and can apply the rx flow control setting even when the interface is transmitting. Acked-by: Bhanuprakash Bodireddy <bhanuprakash.bodire...@intel.com> Regards, Bhanu Prakash. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
