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    dpaa2-eth: Add PFC support through DCB ops · f395b69f
    Ioana Ciornei authored
    Add support in dpaa2-eth for PFC (Priority Flow Control)
    through the DCB ops.
    
    Instruct the hardware to respond to received PFC frames.
    Current firmware doesn't allow us to selectively enable PFC
    on the Rx side for some priorities only, so we will react to
    all incoming PFC frames (and stop transmitting on the traffic
    classes specified in the frame).
    
    Also, configure the hardware to generate PFC frames based on Rx
    congestion notifications. When a certain number of frames accumulate in
    the ingress queues corresponding to a traffic class, priority flow
    control frames are generated for that TC.
    
    The number of PFC traffic classes available can be queried through
    lldptool. Also, which of those traffic classes have PFC enabled is also
    controlled through the same dcbnl_rtnl_ops callbacks.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIoana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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