Symmetric RSS hash functions are beneficial in applications that monitor
both Tx and Rx packets of the same flow (IDS, software firewalls, ..etc).
Getting all traffic of the same flow on the same RX queue results in
higher CPU cache efficiency.
A NIC that supports "symmetric-xor" can achieve this RSS hash symmetry
by XORing the source and destination fields and pass the values to the
RSS hash algorithm.
The user may request RSS hash symmetry for a specific algorithm, via:
# ethtool -X eth0 hfunc <hash_alg> symmetric-xor
or turn symmetry off (asymmetric) by:
# ethtool -X eth0 hfunc <hash_alg>
The specific fields for each flow type should then be specified as usual
via:
# ethtool -N|-U eth0 rx-flow-hash <flow_type> s|d|f|n
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213003321.605376-4-ahmed.zaki@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
There seems to be no docs for the concept of multiple RSS
contexts and how to configure it. I had to explain it three
times recently, the last one being the charm, document it.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018010758.2382742-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
With the introduction of netif_set_xps_queue, XPS can be enabled
by the driver at initialization.
Update the documentation to reflect this, as otherwise users
may incorrectly believe that the feature is off by default.
Fixes: 537c00de1c ("net: Add functions netif_reset_xps_queue and netif_set_xps_queue")
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
There are 4 IRQ documentation files under Documentation/*.txt.
Move them into a new directory (core-api/irq) and add a new
index file for it.
While here, use a title markup for the Debugging section of the
irq-domain.rst file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2da7485c3718e1442e6b4c2dd66857b776e8899b.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert scaling document into reStructuredText and add reference to
scaling document into main table of contents in network documentation.
There are no semantic changes.
There are no references to "scaling.txt" file. Whole kernel tree was
checked using:
$ grep -r "scaling\.txt"
Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
