netdev - Re: RFC: ethtool support for n-tuple filter programming

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Message-Id: <20091108.223848.234795788.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:38:48 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: ethtool support for n-tuple filter programming

From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:49:21 -0800

> On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 21:27 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
>> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:57:21 -0800
>> 
>> > Any comments, thoughts, suggestions, or ideas are welcome.
>> 
>> We can use the existing datastructures and defines used for
>> ETHTOOL_GRX* for new ethtool commands that do filtering.
>> 
>> NIU can filter on these tuples too.
> 
> Are you suggesting to extend the flow hash stuff that is already in
> ethtool (same ioctl)?  If so, that makes sense.  I'll go ahead and get
> some patches together for review.

Not exactly.

Rather, I'm saying to use a new ethtool command, but make use of the
existing flow hash datastructures as much as possible.
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