Merge branch 'xgene-multiq'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:08:34 +0000 (22:08 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:08:34 +0000 (22:08 -0500)
commitb1e0b1241a09c5b51624072a36b8a3f17600053f
tree5729902115e646bf3d80d636b9006841b4cc4fe0
parente4999f256cdde4f2cbb8fc26fd61819cf4d95cf7
parent0d2c2515b84530ed60f50c2b464d14b6ba7aa1a5
Merge branch 'xgene-multiq'

Iyappan Subramanian says:

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Add support for Classifier and RSS

This patch set enables,

(i) Classifier engine that is used for parsing
through the packet and extracting a search string that is then used
to search a database to find associative data.

(ii) Receive Side Scaling (RSS) that does dynamic load
balancing of the CPUs by controlling the number of messages enqueued
per CPU though the help of Toeplitz Hash function of 4-tuple of
source TCP/UDP port, destination TCP/UDP port, source IPV4 address and
destination IPV4 address.

(iii) Multi queue, to make advantage of RSS

v3: Address review comments from v2
    - reordered local variables from longest to shortlest line

v2: Address review comments from v1
    - fix kbuild warning
    - add default coalescing

v1:
    - Initial version
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Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>