On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:35 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:18:11 +0000 > > > Also in some minimal installation, "ethtool" may not always be > > installed. > > This is never an argument against using the most well suited API for > exporting information to the user. > > You can write "minimal" tools that just perform the ethtool netlink > operations you require for information retrieval, you don't have to > have the ethtool utility installed. Would it be better in the long term to make the transmit indirection table available under the new rt_netlink based API's for ethtool? I can imagine that other hardware or hypervisors might have the same kind of transmit mapping. Alternatively, the hyperv network driver could integrate/replace the indirection table with something based on current receive flow steering.
