[net-next PATCH 4/7] net: add tc offload feature flag

John Fastabend
2016-02-03T09:29:15Z

Its useful to turn off the qdisc offload feature at a per device
level. This gives us a big hammer to enable/disable offloading.
More fine grained control (i.e. per rule) may be supported later.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
---
include/linux/netdev_features.h | 3 +++
net/core/ethtool.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
index d9654f0e..a734bf4 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ enum {
NETIF_F_HW_L2FW_DOFFLOAD_BIT, /* Allow L2 Forwarding in Hardware */
NETIF_F_BUSY_POLL_BIT, /* Busy poll */

+ NETIF_F_HW_TC_BIT, /* Offload TC infrastructure */
+
/*
* Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update
* netdev_features_strings[] in net/core/ethtool.c and maybe
@@ -124,6 +126,7 @@ enum {
#define NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_TX __NETIF_F(HW_VLAN_STAG_TX)
#define NETIF_F_HW_L2FW_DOFFLOAD __NETIF_F(HW_L2FW_DOFFLOAD)
#define NETIF_F_BUSY_POLL __NETIF_F(BUSY_POLL)
+#define NETIF_F_HW_TC __NETIF_F(HW_TC)

#define for_each_netdev_feature(mask_addr, bit) \
for_each_set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)mask_addr, NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT)
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index daf0470..636c1c1 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static const char netdev_features_strings[NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN]
[NETIF_F_RXALL_BIT] = "rx-all",
[NETIF_F_HW_L2FW_DOFFLOAD_BIT] = "l2-fwd-offload",
[NETIF_F_BUSY_POLL_BIT] = "busy-poll",
+ [NETIF_F_HW_TC_BIT] = "hw-tc-offload",
};

static const char