netdev - Re: [ethtool PATCH] ethtool: Support n-tuple filter programming

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Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:04:23 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
From:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
cc:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [ethtool PATCH] ethtool: Support n-tuple filter programming

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On 02/04/2010 02:51 AM, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > From: Peter Waskiewicz<peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> >
> > Program underlying ethernet devices with n-tuple flow classification
> > filters.
> >
> > This also adds a new flag to ethtool_flags, allowing n-tuple
> > programming to be toggled using the set_flags call.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr<peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher<jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> > ---
> >
> >   ethtool-copy.h |   35 +++++++++++++
> >   ethtool.c      |  156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >   2 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> applied, but two problems remain:
> 
> 1) you failed to document this in the man page.  I will expect a patch 
> to ethtool.8.

And you shall have it shortly.  My bad.

> 
> 2) you introduced a deviation from the upstream kernel ethtool.h:

I see what happened.  We moved those two entries in ethtool.h into the 
#ifdef __KERNEL__ section.  I can create a patch for the kernel ethtool.h 
to move them back to match userspace if that is what folks want.

> 
> 
> --- ethtool-copy.h      2010-02-24 22:39:21.000000000 -0500
> +++ ../net-next-2.6/include/linux/ethtool.h     2010-02-24 
> 22:14:43.000000000 -0500
> @@ -389,8 +389,6 @@
>   #define ETHTOOL_RXNTUPLE_ACTION_DROP -1
>   };
> 
> -#define ETHTOOL_MAX_NTUPLE_LIST_ENTRY 1024
> -#define ETHTOOL_MAX_NTUPLE_STRING_PER_ENTRY 14
>   struct ethtool_rx_ntuple {
>          __u32                                   cmd;
>          struct ethtool_rx_ntuple_flow_spec      fs;
> 
> 
> 
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