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Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] be2net: Add description about various RSS hash types

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-13 13:20:33

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 18:15 +0530, Padmanabh Ratnakar wrote:
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Incorporated review comment from Eric Dumazet. Added description
about different RSS hash types which adapter is capable of.
Will add support for ETHTOOL_GRXFH and ETHTOOL_SRXFX as suggested
by Ben Hutchings in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Padmanabh Ratnakar <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h
index 45d70de..d5a4ded 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h
@@ -1082,8 +1082,18 @@ struct be_cmd_resp_query_fw_cfg {
 	u32 function_caps;
 };
 
-/******************** RSS Config *******************/
-/* RSS types */
+/******************** RSS Config ****************************************/
+/* RSS type		Input parameters used to compute RX hash
+ * RSS_ENABLE_IPV4	SRC IPv4, DST IPv4
+ * RSS_ENABLE_TCP_IPV4	SRC IPv4, DST IPv4, TCP SRC PORT, TCP DST PORT
+ * RSS_ENABLE_IPV6	SRC IPv6, DST IPv6
+ * RSS_ENABLE_TCP_IPV6	SRC IPv6, DST IPv6, TCP SRC PORT, TCP DST PORT
+ * RSS_ENABLE_UDP_IPV4	SRC IPv4, DST IPv4, UDP SRC PORT, UDP DST PORT
+ * RSS_ENABLE_UDP_IPV6	SRC IPv6, DST IPv6, UDP SRC PORT, UDP DST PORT
+ *
+ * When multiple RSS types are enabled, HW picks the best hash policy
+ * based on the type of the received packet.
+ */
 #define RSS_ENABLE_NONE				0x0
 #define RSS_ENABLE_IPV4				0x1
 #define RSS_ENABLE_TCP_IPV4			0x2
Thanks

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
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