[Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v7 08/10] igb: Add MAC address support for ethtool nftuple filters

Brown, Aaron F aaron.f.brown at intel.com
Tue Apr 17 00:54:26 UTC 2018


> From: Brown, Aaron F
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 7:23 PM
> To: 'Vinicius Costa Gomes' <vinicius.gomes at intel.com>; intel-wired-
> lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Cc: Gomes, Vinicius <vinicius.gomes at intel.com>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>; netdev at vger.kernel.org; Sanchez-Palencia,
> Jesus <jesus.sanchez-palencia at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [next-queue PATCH v7 08/10] igb: Add MAC address support for
> ethtool nftuple filters
> 
> > From: netdev-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-
> > owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vinicius Costa Gomes
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:50 AM
> > To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> > Cc: Gomes, Vinicius <vinicius.gomes at intel.com>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> > <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>; netdev at vger.kernel.org; Sanchez-Palencia,
> > Jesus <jesus.sanchez-palencia at intel.com>
> > Subject: [next-queue PATCH v7 08/10] igb: Add MAC address support for
> > ethtool nftuple filters
> >
> > This adds the capability of configuring the queue steering of arriving
> > packets based on their source and destination MAC addresses.
> >
> > Source address steering (i.e. driving traffic to a specific queue),
> > for the i210, does not work, but filtering does (i.e. accepting
> > traffic based on the source address). So, trying to add a filter
> > specifying only a source address will be an error.
> >
> > 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 \
> >   	     	  	    	  proto 0x22f0 action 3
> > (this will direct packets with source address "44:44:44:44:44:44" and
> > ethertype 0x22f0 to the RX queue 3)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++-
> -
> >  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> Tested by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>


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