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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 48 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index 31a601cafa3f..1e84686a998b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_SET`` set ring sizes ``ETHTOOL_MSG_CHANNELS_GET`` get channel counts ``ETHTOOL_MSG_CHANNELS_SET`` set channel counts + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_COALESCE_GET`` get coalescing parameters ===================================== ================================ Kernel to userspace: @@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_NTF`` ring sizes ``ETHTOOL_MSG_CHANNELS_GET_REPLY`` channel counts ``ETHTOOL_MSG_CHANNELS_NTF`` channel counts + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_COALESCE_GET_REPLY`` coalescing parameters ===================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -745,6 +747,50 @@ driver. Driver may impose additional constraints and may not suspport all attributes. +COALESCE_GET +============ + +Gets coalescing parameters like ``ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE`` ioctl request. + +Request contents: + + ==================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_HEADER`` nested request header + ==================================== ====== ========================== + +Kernel response contents: + + =========================================== ====== ======================= + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_HEADER`` nested reply header + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_USECS`` u32 delay (us), normal Rx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_MAX_FRAMES`` u32 max packets, normal Rx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_USECS_IRQ`` u32 delay (us), Rx in IRQ + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_MAX_FRAMES_IRQ`` u32 max packets, Rx in IRQ + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_USECS`` u32 delay (us), normal Tx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_MAX_FRAMES`` u32 max packets, normal Tx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_USECS_IRQ`` u32 delay (us), Tx in IRQ + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_MAX_FRAMES_IRQ`` u32 IRQ packets, Tx in IRQ + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_STATS_BLOCK_USECS`` u32 delay of stats update + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_USE_ADAPTIVE_RX`` bool adaptive Rx coalesce + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_USE_ADAPTIVE_TX`` bool adaptive Tx coalesce + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_PKT_RATE_LOW`` u32 threshold for low rate + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_USECS_LOW`` u32 delay (us), low Rx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_MAX_FRAMES_LOW`` u32 max packets, low Rx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_USECS_LOW`` u32 delay (us), low Tx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_MAX_FRAMES_LOW`` u32 max packets, low Tx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_PKT_RATE_HIGH`` u32 threshold for high rate + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_USECS_HIGH`` u32 delay (us), high Rx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_MAX_FRAMES_HIGH`` u32 max packets, high Rx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_USECS_HIGH`` u32 delay (us), high Tx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_TX_MAX_FRAMES_HIGH`` u32 max packets, high Tx + ``ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RATE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL`` u32 rate sampling interval + =========================================== ====== ======================= + +Attributes are only included in reply if their value is not zero or the +corresponding bit in ``ethtool_ops::supported_coalesce_params`` is set (i.e. +they are declared as supported by driver). + + Request translation =================== @@ -769,7 +815,7 @@ have their netlink replacement yet. ``ETHTOOL_GLINK`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKSTATE_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_GEEPROM`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_SEEPROM`` n/a - ``ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE`` n/a + ``ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_COALESCE_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_GRINGPARAM`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SRINGPARAM`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_SET`` |