> From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vinicius Costa Gomes > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:50 AM > To: intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org > Cc: Gomes, Vinicius <vinicius.go...@intel.com>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T > <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sanchez-Palencia, > Jesus <jesus.sanchez-palen...@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.go...@intel.com> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >
Tested by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.br...@intel.com>
