From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Subject: Re: RFC: ethtool support for n-tuple filter programming Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:49:21 -0800 Message-ID: <1257745762.2609.5.camel@ppwaskie-mobl2> References: <1257533841.2610.12.camel@ppwaskie-mobl2> <20091107.202712.222562359.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:54398 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750729AbZKIFtR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:49:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091107.202712.222562359.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 21:27 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr > Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:57:21 -0800 > > > Any comments, thoughts, suggestions, or ideas are welcome. > > We can use the existing datastructures and defines used for > ETHTOOL_GRX* for new ethtool commands that do filtering. > > NIU can filter on these tuples too. Are you suggesting to extend the flow hash stuff that is already in ethtool (same ioctl)? If so, that makes sense. I'll go ahead and get some patches together for review. Thanks, -PJ