On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 16:58 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch adds a simple flow director to tun/tap device. It is just a
> page that contains the hash to queue mapping which could be changed by
> user-space. The backend (tap/macvtap) would query this table to get
> the desired queue of a packets when it send packets to userspace.
This is just flow hashing (RSS), not flow steering.
> The page address were set through a new kind of ioctl - TUNSETFD and
> were pinned until device exit or another new page were specified.
[...]
You should implement ethtool ETHTOOL_{G,S}RXFHINDIR instead.
Ben.
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