Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:21:12 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> To: Takuya ASADA <syuu@dokukino.com> Cc: jfv@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4) Message-ID: <1315221674.3092.282.camel@deadeye> In-Reply-To: <CALG4x-W99OZxd=1ZDvW4=MBqeE3RPOazc7jc_3O30X-Pou3k8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALG4x-W99OZxd=1ZDvW4=MBqeE3RPOazc7jc_3O30X-Pou3k8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:51 +0900, Takuya ASADA wrote: > Hi, > > I implemented Ethernet Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4), here's a detail: > > - Adding removing signature filter > On linux version of ixgbe driver, it has ability to set/remove perfect > filter from userland using ethtool command. > I implemented similar feature, but on sysctl, and not perfect filter > but signature filter(which means hash collision may occurs). [...] Linux also has a generic interface to RX filtering and hashing (ethtool_rxnfc) which ixgbe supports; wouldn't it be better for FreeBSD to support something like that? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
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