From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com,
jogreene@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/10][pull request] 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-04-25
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:03:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425.230320.168278875245960005.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425182232.28935-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:22:22 -0700
> This series enables some ethtool and tc-flower filters to be offloaded
> to igb-based network controllers. This is useful when the system
> configuration wants to steer kinds of traffic to a specific hardware
> queue for i210 devices only.
>
> The first two patch in the series are bug fixes.
>
> The basis of this series is to export the internal API used to
> configure address filters, so they can be used by ethtool, and
> extending the functionality so an source address can be handled.
>
> Then, we enable the tc-flower offloading implementation to re-use the
> same infrastructure as ethtool, and storing them in the per-adapter
> "nfc" (Network Filter Config?) list. But for consistency, for
> destructive access they are separated, i.e. an filter added by
> tc-flower can only be removed by tc-flower, but ethtool can read them
> all.
>
> Only support for VLAN Prio, Source and Destination MAC Address, and
> Ethertype is enabled for now.
Pulled, thanks Jeff.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-26 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 18:22 [net-next 00/10][pull request] 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-04-25 Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 01/10] igb: Fix not adding filter elements to the list Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 02/10] igb: Fix queue selection on MAC filters on i210 Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 03/10] igb: Enable the hardware traffic class feature bit for igb models Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 04/10] igb: Add support for MAC address filters specifying source addresses Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 05/10] igb: Add support for enabling queue steering in filters Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 06/10] igb: Allow filters to be added for the local MAC address Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 07/10] igb: Enable nfc filters to specify MAC addresses Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 08/10] igb: Add MAC address support for ethtool nftuple filters Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 09/10] igb: Add the skeletons for tc-flower offloading Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-25 18:22 ` [net-next 10/10] igb: Add support for adding offloaded clsflower filters Jeff Kirsher
2018-04-26 3:03 ` David Miller [this message]
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