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

[hiren panchasara]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Takuya ASADA <syuu at dokukino.com> wrote:

> 2013/9/27 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>
>> On 27 September 2013 00:43, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>
>>> Takuya,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I'd rather see an ioctl API for that chipset and then have a separate
>> tool program it for now.
>>
>
> Ah, like cxgbetool and cxgbe? (it has device specific tool and ioctls)
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/tools/tools/cxgbetool/
>

Something like this for ixgbe would be nice to start with, imo.

Cheers,
Hiren

> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/cxgb/
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>
>> So, how bout we hack that up? :)
>>
>
>  Sound's interesting ;-)
> Could you tell me more detail about your idea?
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