Message ID | 20090401073343.3749.23654.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
Headers | show |
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:33:44 -0700 > In the past flow control wasn't enabled by default under the > incorrect assumption that this opened up us to a denial of > service attack. However since any switch that forwarded flow > control would be extremely msiconfigured and/or buggy, this > concern no longer out weighs the preformance gains from > having FC enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com> > Acked-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com> > Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index fd27513..8f6e263 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -3169,7 +3169,7 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_sw_init(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter) #endif /* default flow control settings */ - hw->fc.requested_mode = ixgbe_fc_none; + hw->fc.requested_mode = ixgbe_fc_full; hw->fc.high_water = IXGBE_DEFAULT_FCRTH; hw->fc.low_water = IXGBE_DEFAULT_FCRTL; hw->fc.pause_time = IXGBE_DEFAULT_FCPAUSE;