netdev - [PATCH 1/2] netdev: ethtool RXHASH flag

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Message-ID: <20100329174727.4654e19c@nehalam>
Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:47:27 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] netdev: ethtool RXHASH flag

This adds ethtool and device feature flag to allow control
of receive hashing offload.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
---
Supersedes earlier patch, decided to call it RXHASH not RSS since
we don't care about other vendors acronyms

--- a/include/linux/ethtool.h	2010-03-28 14:09:58.611267016 -0700
+++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h	2010-03-28 14:19:45.032516128 -0700
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ struct ethtool_perm_addr {
 enum ethtool_flags {
 	ETH_FLAG_LRO		= (1 << 15),	/* LRO is enabled */
 	ETH_FLAG_NTUPLE		= (1 << 27),	/* N-tuple filters enabled */
+	ETH_FLAG_RXHASH		= (1 << 28),
 };
 
 /* The following structures are for supporting RX network flow
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h	2010-03-28 14:12:13.092517615 -0700
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h	2010-03-28 14:13:47.232915349 -0700
@@ -785,6 +785,7 @@ struct net_device {
 #define NETIF_F_SCTP_CSUM	(1 << 25) /* SCTP checksum offload */
 #define NETIF_F_FCOE_MTU	(1 << 26) /* Supports max FCoE MTU, 2158 bytes*/
 #define NETIF_F_NTUPLE		(1 << 27) /* N-tuple filters supported */
+#define NETIF_F_RXHASH		(1 << 28) /* Receive hashing offload */
 
 	/* Segmentation offload features */
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	16
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c	2010-03-28 14:12:25.012207457 -0700
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c	2010-03-28 14:19:41.548521569 -0700
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ int ethtool_op_set_ufo(struct net_device
  * NETIF_F_xxx values in include/linux/netdevice.h
  */
 static const u32 flags_dup_features =
-	(ETH_FLAG_LRO | ETH_FLAG_NTUPLE);
+	(ETH_FLAG_LRO | ETH_FLAG_NTUPLE | ETH_FLAG_RXHASH);
 
 u32 ethtool_op_get_flags(struct net_device *dev)
 {
@@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ int ethtool_op_set_flags(struct net_devi
 		features &= ~NETIF_F_NTUPLE;
 	}
 
+	if (data & ETH_FLAG_RXHASH)
+		features |= NETIF_F_RXHASH;
+	else
+		features &= ~NETIF_F_RXHASH;
+
 	dev->features = features;
 	return 0;
 }
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