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authorSucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>2011-10-07 04:58:50 -0700
committerBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2011-10-17 16:19:27 +0100
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ethtool: add ETHTOOL_{G,S}CHANNEL support.
Used to configure number of tx/ rx/ other channels. Reqd. man page changes are included. Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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@@ -307,6 +307,16 @@ ethtool \- query or control network driver and hardware settings
.BN action
.BN loc
.RB ]
+.HP
+.B ethtool \-l|\-\-show\-channels
+.I ethX
+.HP
+.B ethtool \-L|\-\-set\-channels
+.I ethX
+.BN rx
+.BN tx
+.BN other
+.BN combined
.
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@@ -754,6 +764,25 @@ lB l.
Specify the location/ID to insert the rule. This will overwrite
any rule present in that location and will not go through any
of the rule ordering process.
+.TP
+.B \-l \-\-show\-channels
+Queries the specified network device for the numbers of channels it has.
+A channel is an IRQ and the set of queues that can trigger that IRQ.
+.TP
+.B \-L \-\-set\-channels
+Changes the numbers of channels of the specified network device.
+.TP
+.BI rx \ N
+Changes the number of channels with only receive queues.
+.TP
+.BI tx \ N
+Changes the number of channels with only transmit queues.
+.TP
+.BI other \ N
+Changes the number of channels used only for other purposes e.g. link interrupts or SR-IOV co-ordination.
+.TP
+.BI combined \ N
+Changes the number of multi-purpose channels.
.SH BUGS
Not supported (in part or whole) on all network drivers.
.SH AUTHOR