Make it possible to turnoff XDP-hints for a given net_device.
It is recommended that drivers default turn on XDP-hints as the
overhead is generally low, extracting these hardware hints, and the
benefit is usually higher than this small overhead e.g. getting HW to
do RX checksumming are usually a higher gain.
Some XDP use-case are not ready to take this small overhead. Thus, the
possibility to turn off XDP-hints is need to keep performance of these
use-cases intact.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netdev_features.h | 3 ++-
net/ethtool/common.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
index 7c2d77d75a88..713f04eab497 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ typedef u64 netdev_features_t;
enum {
NETIF_F_SG_BIT, /* Scatter/gather IO. */
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM_BIT, /* Can checksum TCP/UDP over IPv4. */
- __UNUSED_NETIF_F_1,
+ NETIF_F_XDP_HINTS_BIT, /* Populates XDP-hints metadata */
NETIF_F_HW_CSUM_BIT, /* Can checksum all the packets. */
NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM_BIT, /* Can checksum TCP/UDP over IPV6 */
NETIF_F_HIGHDMA_BIT, /* Can DMA to high memory. */
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ enum {
#define NETIF_F_HW_HSR_TAG_RM __NETIF_F(HW_HSR_TAG_RM)
#define NETIF_F_HW_HSR_FWD __NETIF_F(HW_HSR_FWD)
#define NETIF_F_HW_HSR_DUP __NETIF_F(HW_HSR_DUP)
+#define NETIF_F_XDP_HINTS __NETIF_F(XDP_HINTS)
/* Finds the next feature with the highest number of the range of start-1 till 0.
*/
diff --git a/net/ethtool/common.c b/net/ethtool/common.c
index 566adf85e658..a9c62482220f 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/common.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/common.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
const char netdev_features_strings[NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
[NETIF_F_SG_BIT] = "tx-scatter-gather",
[NETIF_F_IP_CSUM_BIT] = "tx-checksum-ipv4",
+ [NETIF_F_XDP_HINTS_BIT] = "xdp-hints",
[NETIF_F_HW_CSUM_BIT] = "tx-checksum-ip-generic",
[NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM_BIT] = "tx-checksum-ipv6",
[NETIF_F_HIGHDMA_BIT] = "highdma",
