Re: [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: hns3: add support for queue bonding mode of flow director

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:18:21 +0800 shenjian (K) wrote:
> Hi  Jakub，
> 
> 
> 在 2021/3/18 9:28, Jakub Kicinski 写道:
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:02:54 +0800 Huazhong Tan wrote:  
> >> On 2021/3/16 4:04, Jakub Kicinski wrote:  
> >>> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:23:50 +0800 Huazhong Tan wrote:  
> >>>> From: Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> For device version V3, it supports queue bonding, which can
> >>>> identify the tuple information of TCP stream, and create flow
> >>>> director rules automatically, in order to keep the tx and rx
> >>>> packets are in the same queue pair. The driver set FD_ADD
> >>>> field of TX BD for TCP SYN packet, and set FD_DEL filed for
> >>>> TCP FIN or RST packet. The hardware create or remove a fd rule
> >>>> according to the TX BD, and it also support to age-out a rule
> >>>> if not hit for a long time.
> >>>>
> >>>> The queue bonding mode is default to be disabled, and can be
> >>>> enabled/disabled with ethtool priv-flags command.  
> >>> This seems like fairly well defined behavior, IMHO we should have a full
> >>> device feature for it, rather than a private flag.  
> >> Should we add a NETIF_F_NTUPLE_HW feature for it?  
> > It'd be better to keep the configuration close to the existing RFS
> > config, no? Perhaps a new file under
> >
> >    /sys/class/net/$dev/queues/rx-$id/
> >
> > to enable the feature would be more appropriate?
> >
> > Otherwise I'd call it something like NETIF_F_RFS_AUTO ?  
> I noticed that the enum NETIF_F_XXX_BIT has already used 64 bits since
> 
> NETIF_F_HW_HSR_DUP_BIT being added, while the prototype of 
> netdev_features_t
> 
> is u64.   So there is no useable bit for new feature if I understand 
> correct.
> 
> Is there any solution or plan for it ?

I think you'll need to start a new word.