On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Robert Olsson wrote:

>  CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL enables kernel code for it. But device
>  drivers has to have support for it. But unfortunely very few drivers
>  has support for it.

Isn't it possible to put something like this in the layer just
above the driver ?

It probably won't work as well as putting it directly in the
driver, but it'll at least keep Linux from collapsing under
really heavy loads ...

regards,

Rik
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