Hi Michal, On 06-04-2018 10:07, Michal Kubecek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:50:49AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 04/05/2018 03:47 AM, Jose Abreu wrote: >>> Background: Synopsys Ethernet IP's have a certain number of >>> features which can be reconfigured at runtime. Giving you two >>> examples: One of the most recent one is the safety features, >>> which can be enabled/disabled and forced at runtime. Another one >>> is a Flexible RX Parser which can route specific packets to >>> specific RX DMA channels. Given that these are features specific >>> to our IP's it would not be useful to add an uniform API for this >>> because the users would only be one or two drivers ... >> Parsing of packets and directing the matched packets to specific >> queues/channels can be done through ethtool rxnfc API, tc/cls_flower as >> well, so you should really check whether those APIs don't already allow >> you to do what you want. >> >> ethtool already supports a concept of private flags, not ioctl() though >> which allows you to toggle boolean values for instance (or technically >> up to how many bits a "flag" is used to represent) is that enough or do >> you need to turn on/off the feature as well as pass configuration >> parameters? > Perhaps introducing "driver/device specific tunables" (i.e. something > like tunables or PHY tunables but specific to a particular device) could > be a way. But it could get out of control quickly and users wouldn't be > happy if they had to set the same (or almost the same) parameter under > five different names for five NIC vendors.
Yeah, that wouldn't be good but I think this should be a responsibility to developer: To see if there is an existing API/ethtool entry before implementing the "tunable". I think a big concern, for me at least, is that ethtool already has a lot of options and introducing even more would lead the user to confusion ... Thanks and Best Regards, Jose Miguel Abreu > > Michal Kubecek
