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Jesse Brandeburg authored
Ethtool priv flags implementation to enable or disable packet split, which is a hardware feature that inspects headers and will put headers in a separate DMA buffer from the payload data. The driver was automatically choosing to enable packet split in some cases and this gives the user the ability to turn it off/on explicitly. to query state: ethtool --show-priv-flags ethx to enable: ethtool --set-priv-flags ethx packet-split on to disable: ethtool --set-priv-flags ethx packet-split off Why would anyone want this? Because some environments benefit from header/data split in the receive buffer, and the driver defaults to one or the other depending on environment/kernel parameters. Why didn't you implement a generic ethtool control for this feature? Because Intel hardware is the only hardware that supports header/data split. Change-ID: I803121e1eecc9ccb2884031fd85dd1110b3af66d Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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