Commit eed2a12f1ed9aabf0676f4d0db34aad51976c5c6
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David S. Miller
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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>
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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 = ð_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 | \ |
net/core/ethtool.c
... | ... | @@ -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) |