Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:17:50 +0200

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]> 2008-06-11 19:50
>> Thomas Graf wrote:
>>> Another area of interest is sending congestion frames on our own. We
>>> could finally implement real ingress software shaping and turn every
>>> linux system into a DCB capable node.
>> There was a qdisc submission for a scheduler called "pace" (IIRC)
>> that did this. It needed some cleanups before merging, but nothing
>> grave.
> 
> Do you know if it used congestion notifcation on link level? I can't
> seem to find the posting.

They're using PAUSE frames. The latest submission I could find is:

http://marc.info/?t=119625135300006&r=1&w=2