[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v3 2/2] ice: Implement 'flow-type ether' rules
Plachno, Lukasz
lukasz.plachno at intel.com
Wed Dec 20 14:19:28 UTC 2023
On 12/19/2023 6:35 PM, Brett Creeley wrote:
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> On 12/13/2023 8:34 PM, Lukasz Plachno wrote:
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>> From: Jakub Buchocki <jakubx.buchocki at intel.com>
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>> Add support for 'flow-type ether' Flow Director rules via ethtool.
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>> Rules not containing masks are processed by the Flow Director,
>> and support the following set of input parameters in all combinations:
>> src, dst, proto, vlan-etype, vlan, action.
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>> It is possible to specify address mask in ethtool parameters but only
>> 00:00:00:00:00 and FF:FF:FF:FF:FF are valid.
>> The same applies to proto, vlan-etype and vlan masks:
>> only 0x0000 and 0xffff masks are valid.
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> Would it be useful to have user facing error messages for invalid masks
> stating what the valid masks are?
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Do you think about something like:
dev_warn("Driver only supports masks 00:00:00:00:00:00 and
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF"),
or there is a way to pass custom message to ethtool to print it to user?
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>> Signed-off-by: Jakub Buchocki <jakubx.buchocki at intel.com>
>> Co-developed-by: Mateusz Pacuszka <mateuszx.pacuszka at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Pacuszka <mateuszx.pacuszka at intel.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Plachno <lukasz.plachno at intel.com>
>> ---
>> .../net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fdir.c | 27 ++++
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fdir.h | 11 ++
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_type.h | 1 +
>> 4 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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