On February 23, 2018 5:20:33 PM PST, Vinicius Costa Gomes
<vinicius.go...@intel.com> wrote:
>This adds the capability of configuring the queue steering of arriving
>packets based on their source and destination MAC addresses.
>
>In practical terms this adds support for the following use cases,
>characterized by these examples:
>
>$ ethtool -N eth0 flow-type ether dst aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa action 0
>(this will direct packets with destination address "aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa"
>to the RX queue 0)
>
>$ ethtool -N eth0 flow-type ether src 44:44:44:44:44:44 action 3
>(this will direct packets with destination address "44:44:44:44:44:44"
>to the RX queue 3)
>
>Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.go...@intel.com>
>---
[snip]
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>index 143f0bb34e4d..d8686a0f5b5d 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ static const char
>igb_priv_flags_strings[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
>
> #define IGB_PRIV_FLAGS_STR_LEN ARRAY_SIZE(igb_priv_flags_strings)
>
>+static const u8 broadcast_addr[ETH_ALEN] = {
>+ 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff };
This is already defined in an existing header, don't have it handy but likely
etherdevice.h.
--
Florian
