> Hi folks,
>
> I've been facing a very noisy network where hundreds broadcast packets
> were generated every second.
> When this traffic can't be controlled at the source, there is a side
> effect on some systems.
> I was having some idle systems that will never be targeted by this
> broadcast traffic that got loaded just by receiving that "flood".
> I mean by loaded that this light hardware was generating 300
> context/switches per second.
>
> I was looking for many options to avoid this traffic to disturb this
> hosts and I discovered that the e100 driver was featuring a
> "broadcast_disabled" configure option.
> I realize that this option is not controllable, so I wrote this simple
> patch that expose this option as a module option.
> This allow me to tell this hosts not to listen anymore this traffic.
>
> The result is clearly good as my systems are now running at 21
> context/switches while being idle.
> Hope this patch isn't too bad and could help others that faces the same problem.
>
> Patch can be downloaded here :
>
http://konilope.linuxeries.org/e100_broadcast_disabled.patch
>
> Even if gmail is eating the inlined, patch, at least that make it
> easier to read it for humans.
> If the patch is acked, the downloaded one will be more clean ;)
>
> This patch was generated on top of the latest 2.6 torvald's git.
> Cheers,
> Erwan
>
> Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu <erwanaliasr1@gmail.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/e100.c b/drivers/net/e100.c
> index b997e57..2ba582f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/e100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/e100.c
> @@ -194,12 +194,15 @@ MODULE_FIRMWARE(FIRMWARE_D102E);
> static int debug = 3;
> static int eeprom_bad_csum_allow = 0;
> static int use_io = 0;
> +static int broadcast_disabled = 0;
> module_param(debug, int, 0);
> module_param(eeprom_bad_csum_allow, int, 0);
> module_param(use_io, int, 0);
> +module_param(broadcast_disabled, int, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Debug level (0=none,...,16=all)");
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(eeprom_bad_csum_allow, "Allow bad eeprom checksums");
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_io, "Force use of i/o access mode");
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(broadcast_disabled, "Filter broadcast packets
> (0=disabled (default), 1=enabled)");
> #define DPRINTK(nlevel, klevel, fmt, args...) \
> (void)((NETIF_MSG_##nlevel & nic->msg_enable) && \
> printk(KERN_##klevel PFX "%s: %s: " fmt, nic->netdev->name, \
> @@ -1131,6 +1134,8 @@ static void e100_configure(struct nic *nic,
> struct cb *cb, struct sk_buff *skb)
> config->promiscuous_mode = 0x1; /* 1=on, 0=off */
> }
>
> + config->broadcast_disabled = broadcast_disabled; /* Broadcast filtering */
> +
> if (nic->flags & multicast_all)
> config->multicast_all = 0x1; /* 1=accept, 0=no */
> --
