Symmetric RSS hash functions are beneficial in applications that monitor
both Tx and Rx packets of the same flow (IDS, software firewalls, ..etc).
Getting all traffic of the same flow on the same RX queue results in
higher CPU cache efficiency.
A NIC that supports "symmetric-xor" can achieve this RSS hash symmetry
by XORing the source and destination fields and pass the values to the
RSS hash algorithm.
The user may request RSS hash symmetry for a specific algorithm, via:
# ethtool -X eth0 hfunc <hash_alg> symmetric-xor
or turn symmetry off (asymmetric) by:
# ethtool -X eth0 hfunc <hash_alg>
The specific fields for each flow type should then be specified as usual
via:
# ethtool -N|-U eth0 rx-flow-hash <flow_type> s|d|f|n
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213003321.605376-4-ahmed.zaki@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add the RSS context parameters to struct ethtool_rxfh_param and use the
get/set_rxfh to handle the RSS contexts as well.
This is part 2/2 of the fix suggested in [1]:
- Add a rss_context member to the argument struct and a capability
like cap_link_lanes_supported to indicate whether driver supports
rss contexts, then you can remove *et_rxfh_context functions,
and instead call *et_rxfh() with a non-zero rss_context.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231121152906.2dd5f487@kernel.org/ [1]
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Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213003321.605376-3-ahmed.zaki@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The get/set_rxfh ethtool ops currently takes the rxfh (RSS) parameters
as direct function arguments. This will force us to change the API (and
all drivers' functions) every time some new parameters are added.
This is part 1/2 of the fix, as suggested in [1]:
- First simplify the code by always providing a pointer to all params
(indir, key and func); the fact that some of them may be NULL seems
like a weird historic thing or a premature optimization.
It will simplify the drivers if all pointers are always present.
- Then make the functions take a dev pointer, and a pointer to a
single struct wrapping all arguments. The set_* should also take
an extack.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231121152906.2dd5f487@kernel.org/ [1]
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213003321.605376-2-ahmed.zaki@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
We had a number of bugs in the past because developers forgot
to fully test dumps, which pass NULL as info to .prepare_data.
.prepare_data implementations would try to access info->extack
leading to a null-deref.
Now that dumps and notifications can access struct genl_info
we can pass it in, and remove the info null checks.
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> # pause
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814214723.2924989-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Current code for RSS_GET ethtool command includes netlink attributes
in reply message to user space even if they are null. Added checks
to include netlink attribute in reply message only if a value is
received from driver. Drivers might return null for RSS indirection
table or hash key. Instead of including attributes with empty value
in the reply message, add netlink attribute only if there is content.
Fixes: 7112a04664 ("ethtool: add netlink based get rss support")
Signed-off-by: Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230111235607.85509-1-sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add netlink based support for "ethtool -x <dev> [context x]"
command by implementing ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_GET netlink message.
This is equivalent to functionality provided via ETHTOOL_GRSSH
in ioctl path. It sends RSS table, hash key and hash function
of an interface to user space.
This patch implements existing functionality available
in ioctl path and enables addition of new RSS context
based parameters in future.
Signed-off-by: Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202002555.241580-1-sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
