Blame SOURCES/0017-ethtool.8-Document-RSS-context-control-and-RSS-filte.patch

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From 2fb429c04c2da29701c250351bb8877f9d0e5ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:04:21 +0000
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Subject: [PATCH 17/18] ethtool.8: Document RSS context control and RSS filters
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Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
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Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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(cherry picked from commit 172d6f10021dcce940d0354b266a9f4bbfde0b94)
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---
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 ethtool.8.in | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/ethtool.8.in b/ethtool.8.in
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index 6816020..dd2e3f5 100644
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--- a/ethtool.8.in
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+++ b/ethtool.8.in
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@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ ethtool \- query or control network driver and hardware settings
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 .BM user\-def
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 .RB [ dst-mac \ \*(MA\ [ m \ \*(MA]]
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 .BN action
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+.BN context
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 .BN loc
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 .RB |
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 .br
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@@ -303,6 +304,10 @@ ethtool \- query or control network driver and hardware settings
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 .RB ...\ | \ default \ ]
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 .RB [ hfunc
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 .IR FUNC ]
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+.RB [ context
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+.I CTX
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+.RB |\  new ]
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+.RB [ delete ]
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 .HP
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 .B ethtool \-f|\-\-flash
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 .I devname file
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@@ -832,6 +837,13 @@ lB	l.
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 0 or higher	Rx queue to route the flow
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 .TE
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 .TP
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+.BI context \ N
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+Specifies the RSS context to spread packets over multiple queues; either
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+.B 0
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+for the default RSS context, or a value returned by
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+.BI ethtool\ -X\  ... \ context
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+.BR new .
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+.TP
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 .BI loc \ N
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 Specify the location/ID to insert the rule. This will overwrite
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 any rule present in that location and will not go through any
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@@ -883,6 +895,22 @@ must be non-zero and must not exceed the size of the indirection table.
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 .TP
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 .BI default
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 Sets the receive flow hash indirection table to its default value.
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+.TP
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+\fBcontext \fICTX\fR | \fBnew\fR
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+Specifies an RSS context to act on; either
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+.B new
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+to allocate a new RSS context, or
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+.IR CTX ,
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+a value returned by a previous
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+.IB ... \ context
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+.BR new .
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+.TP
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+.B delete
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+Delete the specified RSS context.  May only be used in conjunction with
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+.B context
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+and a non-zero
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+.I CTX
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+value.
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 .RE
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 .TP
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 .B \-f \-\-flash
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-- 
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1.8.3.1
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