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i40e: use priv flags to control packet split
authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 23:26:07 +0000 (15:26 -0800)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:23:35 +0000 (02:23 -0800)
commit827de39212298048e75309377c8262c4d7f2cb41
tree79193f86fab93e495bd093879912c2a230bb59bd
parentd82acb353246d3989377761ca26f5489264a4793
i40e: use priv flags to control packet split

Ethtool priv flags implementation to enable or disable packet split, which
is a hardware feature that inspects headers and will put headers in a
separate DMA buffer from the payload data.  The driver was automatically
choosing to enable packet split in some cases and this gives the user the
ability to turn it off/on explicitly.

to query state:
ethtool --show-priv-flags ethx

to enable:
ethtool --set-priv-flags ethx packet-split on
to disable:
ethtool --set-priv-flags ethx packet-split off

Why would anyone want this?
Because some environments benefit from header/data split in the receive
buffer, and the driver defaults to one or the other depending on
environment/kernel parameters.

Why didn't you implement a generic ethtool control for this feature?
Because Intel hardware is the only hardware that supports header/data
split.

Change-ID: I803121e1eecc9ccb2884031fd85dd1110b3af66d
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c