ethtool: add header/data split indication
For applications running on a mix of platforms it's useful
to have a clear indication whether host's NIC supports the
geometry requirements of TCP zero-copy. TCP zero-copy Rx
requires data to be neatly placed into memory pages.
Most NICs can't do that.
This patch is adding GET support only, since the NICs
I work with either always have the feature enabled or
enable it whenever MTU is set to jumbo. In other words
I don't need SET. But adding set should be trivial.
(The only note on SET is that we will likely want
the setting to be "sticky" and use 0 / `unknown`
to reset it back to driver default.)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
index 9d98e05..cae28af 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
@@ -860,8 +860,16 @@
``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_JUMBO`` u32 size of RX jumbo ring
``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TX`` u32 size of TX ring
``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_BUF_LEN`` u32 size of buffers on the ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TCP_DATA_SPLIT`` u8 TCP header / data split
==================================== ====== ===========================
+``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TCP_DATA_SPLIT`` indicates whether the device is usable with
+page-flipping TCP zero-copy receive (``getsockopt(TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE)``).
+If enabled the device is configured to place frame headers and data into
+separate buffers. The device configuration must make it possible to receive
+full memory pages of data, for example because MTU is high enough or through
+HW-GRO.
+
RINGS_SET
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