2009/7/27 Łukasz Jachymczyk <[email protected]>: > Michael Blizek wrote: > >>>> 1) Congestion handling is usually done by the sender and not the >>>> receiver. >>> >>> I'm not sure about this. After all I can send as much data over >>> network as I can and the receiver might have not enough resources to >>> handle it. Isn't receiver the one that should worry about >>> congestion? > > I might not say it clearly, but my driver is sending only raw Ethernet > frames. No TCP/IP. As you can see, it's very basic communication. Yet I > would be happy to know when device driver is dropping packets.
Wouldn't the MAC controller take care of it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_flow_control HTH, -mandeep > > As I said, there used to be queue's cng_level struct member in netif_rx. It > contained information about ingress traffic queue congestion level. But now > it's gone and I can't figure out what else to use. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
