A system/cpu can be loaded by a hacker with flooding of broadcast or
multicast packets, to prevent this some Ethernet controllers like CPSW
provide a mechanism to limit the broadcast/multicast packet rate via
hardware limiters. This patch series enables this feature via
Ethtool Coalesce.
Mugunthan V N (3):
net: ethtool: Add Multicast and broadcast rate limit coalescing
feature
drivers: net: cpsw: remove redundancy check
drivers: net: cpsw: Add support for multicast/broadcast rate limit
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 4 ++
2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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2.0.0.390.gcb682f8
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