[PATCH] VNIC: Adding support for Cavium ThunderX network controller

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:44:11 +0530
Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:54:34 +0100
> > Robert Richter <rric at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> +#ifdef       VNIC_RSS_SUPPORT
> >> +static int rss_config = RSS_IP_HASH_ENA | RSS_TCP_HASH_ENA | RSS_UDP_HASH_ENA;
> >> +module_param(rss_config, int, S_IRUGO);
> >> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(rss_config,
> >> +              "RSS hash config [bits 8:0] (Bit0:L2 extended, 1:IP, 2:TCP, 3:TCP SYN, 4:UDP, 5:L4 extended, 6:ROCE 7:L3 bi-directional, 8:L4 bi-directional)");
> >> +#endif
> >
> > This should managed  be via ethtool ETHTOOL_GRXFH rather than a module parameter.
> Thanks, i will add setting hash options via ETHTOOL_SRXFH as well.
> The idea here is to have a choice of hash while module load (through
> module params) and if it needs to be changed runtime then
> via Ethtool.
> 
> Sunil.

Network developers do not like vendor unique module parameters.
Anything device specific doesn't work in a generic distro environment.