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| author | Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com> | 2022-12-01 16:25:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-12-05 17:25:00 -0800 |
| commit | 7112a04664bfc10ae4709b2079fe3991cbd1fe18 (patch) | |
| tree | 25b5640672e272706ff7141e232dcb54cfa1d9b7 /Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | |
| parent | 343a5d358e4ab5597e90e1eafa7eba55eb42e96b (diff) | |
ethtool: add netlink based get rss support
Add netlink based support for "ethtool -x <dev> [context x]"
command by implementing ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_GET netlink message.
This is equivalent to functionality provided via ETHTOOL_GRSSH
in ioctl path. It sends RSS table, hash key and hash function
of an interface to user space.
This patch implements existing functionality available
in ioctl path and enables addition of new RSS context
based parameters in future.
Signed-off-by: Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202002555.241580-1-sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 31 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index bede24ef44fd..f10f8eb44255 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_GET`` get transceiver module parameters ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PSE_SET`` set PSE parameters ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PSE_GET`` get PSE parameters + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_GET`` get RSS settings ===================================== ================================= Kernel to userspace: @@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHC_VCLOCKS_GET_REPLY`` PHC virtual clocks info ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_GET_REPLY`` transceiver module parameters ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PSE_GET_REPLY`` PSE parameters + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_GET_REPLY`` RSS settings ======================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -1687,6 +1689,33 @@ to control PoDL PSE Admin functions. This option is implementing ``IEEE 802.3-2018`` 30.15.1.2.1 acPoDLPSEAdminControl. See ``ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_STATE`` for supported values. +RSS_GET +======= + +Get indirection table, hash key and hash function info associated with a +RSS context of an interface similar to ``ETHTOOL_GRSSH`` ioctl request. + +Request contents: + +===================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HEADER`` nested request header + ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_CONTEXT`` u32 context number +===================================== ====== ========================== + +Kernel response contents: + +===================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HEADER`` nested reply header + ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HFUNC`` u32 RSS hash func + ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_INDIR`` binary Indir table bytes + ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HKEY`` binary Hash key bytes +===================================== ====== ========================== + +ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HFUNC attribute is bitmap indicating the hash function +being used. Current supported options are toeplitz, xor or crc32. +ETHTOOL_A_RSS_INDIR attribute returns RSS indrection table where each byte +indicates queue number. + Request translation =================== @@ -1768,7 +1797,7 @@ are netlink only. ``ETHTOOL_GMODULEEEPROM`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_GEEE`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_EEE_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SEEE`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_EEE_SET`` - ``ETHTOOL_GRSSH`` n/a + ``ETHTOOL_GRSSH`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SRSSH`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_GTUNABLE`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_STUNABLE`` n/a |