[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v5] i40e: Add macvlan support on i40e

[Brown, Aaron F]

> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Bowers, AndrewX
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:28 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v5] i40e: Add macvlan support on i40e
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> > Behalf Of Jeff Kirsher
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:04 PM
> > To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v5] i40e: Add macvlan support on i40e
> >
> > From: Harshitha Ramamurthy <harshitha.ramamurthy at intel.com>
> >
> > This patch enables macvlan offloads for i40e. The idea is to use channels as
> > macvlan interfaces. The channels are VSIs of type VMDQ. When the first
> > macvlan is created, the maximum number of channels possible are created.
> > From then on, as a macvlan interface is created, a mac filter is added to
> these
> > already created channels (VSIs).
> >
> > This patch builds on top of the recent changes which move away from the
> > select_queue implementation of picking the tx queue.
> >
> > Steps to configure macvlan offloads:
> > 1. ethtool -K ens261f1 l2-fwd-offload on 2. ip link add link ens261f1 name
> > macvlan1 type macvlan 3. ip addr add <address> dev macvlan1 4. ip link set
> > macvlan1 up
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <harshitha.ramamurthy at intel.com>
> > ---
> > v5: updated the patch description based on community feedback
> >
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h      |  26 ++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 484
> +++++++++++++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 508 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>

Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>