linux-kernel - [RFC V2 PATCH 23/25] net/netpolicy: optimize for queue pair

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Message-Id: <1420076354-4861-24-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:39:12 -0500
From:	kan.liang@...el.com
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	netdev@...r.kernel.org
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	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
Subject: [RFC V2 PATCH 23/25] net/netpolicy: optimize for queue pair

From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>

Some drivers like i40e driver does not support separate Tx and Rx queues
as channels. Using Rx queue to stand for the channels, if queue_pair is
set by driver.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
---
 include/linux/netpolicy.h | 1 +
 net/core/netpolicy.c      | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netpolicy.h b/include/linux/netpolicy.h
index 00600f8..0eba512 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpolicy.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct netpolicy_info {
 	enum netpolicy_name	cur_policy;
 	unsigned long avail_policy[BITS_TO_LONGS(NET_POLICY_MAX)];
 	bool	has_mix_policy;
+	bool	queue_pair;
 	/* cpu and queue mapping information */
 	struct netpolicy_sys_info	sys_info;
 	/* List of policy objects 0 rx 1 tx */
diff --git a/net/core/netpolicy.c b/net/core/netpolicy.c
index dc1edfc..735405c 100644
--- a/net/core/netpolicy.c
+++ b/net/core/netpolicy.c
@@ -495,6 +495,9 @@ int netpolicy_pick_queue(struct netpolicy_instance *instance, bool is_rx)
 	if (!policy_validate(instance))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (dev->netpolicy->queue_pair)
+		is_rx = true;
+
 	/* fast path */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	version = (int *)rcu_dereference(netpolicy_sys_map_version);
-- 
2.5.5