Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:38:13 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: How to optimize routing performance |
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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 ...
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