Re: Pause and unpause queue

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>]

team lnx <teamlnxi8@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> sure, during xdp redirect i found that sometimes the number of packets
> arrived are too many for an interface
> to handle in which case. Hence thought to experiment with tx pause to
> make room for successive packets and then unpause !

Right, so this is using XDP as a straight-forward forwarding
accelerator, redirecting from one interface to another? That will indeed
only work well if both interfaces are exactly the same link speed; this
is one of the motivating use cases for the queueing work :)

-Toke