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Commit b5638d46 authored by Petr Machata's avatar Petr Machata Committed by David S. Miller
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selftests: mlxsw: Add a test for UC behavior under MC flood



A so-called "MC-aware" mode has recently been enabled in mlxsw. In
MC-aware mode, BUM traffic is handled in a special way so that when a
switch is flooded with BUM, UC performance isn't unduly impacted.
Without enablement of this mode, a stream of BUM traffic can cause
sustained UC throughput drop in excess of 99 %.

Add a test for this behavior. Compare how much UC throughput degrades as
a stream of broadcast frames floods the switch. A minimal degradation is
tolerated to cover for glitches in traffic injection performance.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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