Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4) (was: netmap: traffic distribution)

[Takuya ASADA]

Hi,

I think there were many comment which says "don't use device specific
sysctls, we should have more generic interface to configure NIC filter,
like Linux's ethtool".
And I heard same idea in last BSDCan, but there's still no proposal of
"generic interface for NIC filter", I suppose.
So, honestly I haven't good idea to merge the change.
Is there any people who has good idea to handle this?

Or, just merge this patch would be fine?


2013/9/27 hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>

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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:38 AM, hiren panchasara <
> hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Michio Honda <micchie at outlook.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> The handiest way to try flexible flow distribution is using Flow
>>> Director.
>>> I've confirmed that the patch posted to this list two years ago works
>>> with netmap/ixgbe.
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>>> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Adding-Flow-Director-sysctls-to-ixgbe-4-td4769489.html
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>> Thanks a lot for the link, Michio!
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>> It seems this work is yet not committed?!?
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> Takuya,
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> I see a lot of responses/comments on proposed changes. Was anything
> decided at the end of it? As far as I can tell, its still not committed to
> the tree.
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> Thanks,
> Hiren
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