Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: add automatic packet steering support

2017-03-28 Thread David Miller
From: Felix Manlunas Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:40:02 -0700 > Packet steering can be enabled or disabled via ethtool like this: > > ethtool --set-priv-flags ethX pkt_steering on|off Do not create private ethtool flags for something which is so fundamental. We have the ethtool rxfh controls

[PATCH net-next] liquidio: add automatic packet steering support

2017-03-28 Thread Felix Manlunas
From: VSR Burru Add automatic packet steering support. NIC firmware does the actual work; host driver helps by instructing Octeon's Packet Interface Unit (PKI) to calculate 5-tuple hash (source ip, destination ip, source port, destination port, protocol) for egress packets, which the firmware us