Commit eed2a12f1ed9aabf0676f4d0db34aad51976c5c6

Authored by Mahesh Bandewar
Committed by David S. Miller
1 parent 47a0200d53

net: Allow ethtool to set interface in loopback mode.

This patch enables ethtool to set the loopback mode on a given interface.
By configuring the interface in loopback mode in conjunction with a policy
route / rule, a userland application can stress the egress / ingress path
exposing the flows of the change in progress and potentially help developer(s)
understand the impact of those changes without even sending a packet out
on the network.

Following set of commands illustrates one such example -
    a) ip -4 addr add 192.168.1.1/24 dev eth1
    b) ip -4 rule add from all iif eth1 lookup 250
    c) ip -4 route add local 0/0 dev lo proto kernel scope host table 250
    d) arp -Ds 192.168.1.100 eth1
    e) arp -Ds 192.168.1.200 eth1
    f) sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1
    g) sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_local=1
    # Assuming that the machine has 8 cores
    h) taskset 000f netserver -L 192.168.1.200
    i) taskset 00f0 netperf -t TCP_CRR -L 192.168.1.100 -H 192.168.1.200 -l 30

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Showing 3 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions Side-by-side Diff

drivers/net/loopback.c
... ... @@ -174,7 +174,8 @@
174 174 | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA
175 175 | NETIF_F_LLTX
176 176 | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL
177   - | NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED;
  177 + | NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED
  178 + | NETIF_F_LOOPBACK;
178 179 dev->ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops;
179 180 dev->header_ops = &eth_header_ops;
180 181 dev->netdev_ops = &loopback_ops;
include/linux/netdevice.h
... ... @@ -1067,6 +1067,7 @@
1067 1067 #define NETIF_F_RXHASH (1 << 28) /* Receive hashing offload */
1068 1068 #define NETIF_F_RXCSUM (1 << 29) /* Receive checksumming offload */
1069 1069 #define NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY (1 << 30) /* Use no-cache copyfromuser */
  1070 +#define NETIF_F_LOOPBACK (1 << 31) /* Enable loopback */
1070 1071  
1071 1072 /* Segmentation offload features */
1072 1073 #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT 16
... ... @@ -1082,7 +1083,7 @@
1082 1083 /* = all defined minus driver/device-class-related */
1083 1084 #define NETIF_F_NEVER_CHANGE (NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED | \
1084 1085 NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL)
1085   -#define NETIF_F_ETHTOOL_BITS (0x7f3fffff & ~NETIF_F_NEVER_CHANGE)
  1086 +#define NETIF_F_ETHTOOL_BITS (0xff3fffff & ~NETIF_F_NEVER_CHANGE)
1086 1087  
1087 1088 /* List of features with software fallbacks. */
1088 1089 #define NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE (NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | \
... ... @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
362 362 /* NETIF_F_RXHASH */ "rx-hashing",
363 363 /* NETIF_F_RXCSUM */ "rx-checksum",
364 364 /* NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY */ "tx-nocache-copy"
365   - "",
  365 + /* NETIF_F_LOOPBACK */ "loopback",
366 366 };
367 367  
368 368 static int __ethtool_get_sset_count(struct net_device *dev, int sset)