Hi,
The M_FLOWID flag is marked as deprecated in the FreeBSD kernel code and
the patch below completely removes it. I suggest we will now be using
the "m_pkthdr.rsstype" also known as "M_HASHTYPE" to decide if the
flowid value is valid or not. When the "rsstype" is set to
"M_HASHTYPE_NONE" the "m_pkthdr.flowid" field is not valid. Else this
field contains valid data for both TX and RX direction.
Background:
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The network drivers today use the "rsstype" field only when receiving
traffic. After my patch it is also used when sending traffic, and
probably we should rename it.
The reason for using the rsstype field for transmit, is to avoid
introducing another field in the MBUF's packet header in order to steer
outgoing traffic into special multiple purpose hardware FIFOs. This new
feature should coexist with the existing flowid mechanism, and this is
achieved by introducing a new hash type which I've named
"M_HASHTYPE_HWRING" in my patch. This type can be selected by upper
layers when generating traffic for lower layers, to indicate that the
traffic is of a special kind and should have special treatment by the
hardware, like rate-limiting. Hardware which doesn't support
M_HASHTYPE_HWRING will send out the packets like usual.
Patch is available from here:
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http://home.selasky.org:8192/m_flowid_removal.diff
Comments are appreciated!
--HPS
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