Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4) (was: netmap: traffic distribution)

[hiren panchasara]

On Sep 30, 2013 5:08 AM, "Takuya ASADA" <syuu at dokukino.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> This is updated version of the patch.

I will give this a try today.

Cheers
Hiren

> Signature filter list feature is added.
>
> Here're usage of ixgbetool:
> - add a filter
> ixgbetool ix0 add_sig_filter tcpv4 10.1.0.1 34763 10.1.0.2 22 3
> - show filters
> ixgbetool ix0 show_sig_filter
> - del a filter
> ixgbetool ix0 del_sig_filter 1
>
>
>
> 2013/9/30 Takuya ASADA <syuu at dokukino.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just implemented device specific ioctl with device specific
configuration tool.
>> It still doesn't support some important features such as:
>>  - FDIR enable / disable via sysctl or tunable params
>>  - ATR enable / disable via sysctl or tunable params
>>  - IPv6 support on signature filter
>>  - signature filter list
>>  - support perfect filter
>> But, at least it can configure signature filter manually.
>>
>> Usage is as follows:
>> Usage: ixgbetool <ifname> [operation]
>> add_sig_filter <proto> <src_ip> <src_port> <dst_ip> <dst_port>
<que_index>
>> del_sig_filter <proto> <src_ip> <src_port> <dst_ip> <dst_port>
>>
>>
>> 2013/9/28 hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>
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>>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Takuya ASADA <syuu at dokukino.com> wrote:
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>>>> 2013/9/27 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27 September 2013 00:43, hiren panchasara <
hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Takuya,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see a lot of responses/comments on proposed changes. Was anything
decided
>>>>>> at the end of it? As far as I can tell, its still not committed to
the
>>>>>> tree.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd rather see an ioctl API for that chipset and then have a separate
tool program it for now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah, like cxgbetool and cxgbe? (it has device specific tool and ioctls)
>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/tools/tools/cxgbetool/
>>>
>>>
>>> Something like this for ixgbe would be nice to start with, imo.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hiren
>>>>
>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/cxgb/
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, how bout we hack that up? :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Sound's interesting ;-)
>>>> Could you tell me more detail about your idea?
>>>>
>>>
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