On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 04:54:01PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> The ability to set speed and duplex for virtio_net in useful in various
> scenarios as described here:
>
> 16032be virtio_net: add ethtool support for set and get of settings
>
> However, it would be nice to be able to set this from the hypervisor,
> such that virtio_net doesn't require custom guest ethtool commands.
>
> Introduce a new feature flag, VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, which allows
> the hypervisor to export a linkspeed and duplex setting. The user can
> subsequently overwrite it later if desired via: 'ethtool -s'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Same as any host/guest API change, please send a copy to the virtio TC
to make sure we avoid conflicts.
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 511f833..4168d82 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -2621,6 +2621,20 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(dev, vi->curr_queue_pairs);
>
> virtnet_init_settings(dev);
> + if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX)) {
> + u32 speed;
> + u8 duplex;
> +
> + speed = virtio_cread32(vdev, offsetof(struct virtio_net_config,
> + speed));
> + if (ethtool_validate_speed(speed))
> + vi->speed = speed;
> + duplex = virtio_cread8(vdev,
> + offsetof(struct virtio_net_config,
> + duplex));
> + if (ethtool_validate_duplex(duplex))
> + vi->duplex = duplex;
> + }
>
> err = register_netdev(dev);
> if (err) {
> @@ -2746,7 +2760,8 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
> VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN, \
> VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, \
> VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR, \
> - VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS
> + VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \
> + VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX
>
> static unsigned int features[] = {
> VIRTNET_FEATURES,
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> index fc353b5..0f1548e 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
> * Steering */
> #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23 /* Set MAC address */
>
> +#define VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX 63 /* Host set linkspeed and duplex */
> +
> #ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
> #define VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO 6 /* Host handles pkts w/ any GSO type */
> #endif /* VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY */
> @@ -76,6 +78,9 @@ struct virtio_net_config {
> __u16 max_virtqueue_pairs;
> /* Default maximum transmit unit advice */
> __u16 mtu;
> + /* Host exported linkspeed and duplex */
> + __u32 speed;
> + __u8 duplex;
> } __attribute__((packed));
>
> /*
> --
> 2.6.1
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