netdev - pull request: sfc-next-2.6 2011-02-18

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Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:00:39 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	sf-linux-drivers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: pull request: sfc-next-2.6 2011-02-18

The following changes since commit f878b995b0f746f5726af9e66940f3bf373dae91:

  Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc-next-2.6 (2011-02-15 12:25:19 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc-next-2.6.git for-davem

Add support for RFS acceleration in the sfc driver, and allow it to be
enabled and disabled dynamically using ethtool.

Ben.

Ben Hutchings (3):
      net: RPS: Make hardware-accelerated RFS conditional on NETIF_F_NTUPLE
      sfc: Limit filter search depth further for performance hints (i.e. RFS)
      sfc: Implement hardware acceleration of RFS

 drivers/net/sfc/efx.c        |   49 +++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/sfc/efx.h        |   15 +++++
 drivers/net/sfc/filter.c     |  117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/net/sfc/net_driver.h |    3 +
 net/core/dev.c               |    3 +-
 5 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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