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authorMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>2011-05-04 15:30:11 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-08 15:59:12 -0700
commiteed2a12f1ed9aabf0676f4d0db34aad51976c5c6 (patch)
treea86d3ff7c6a9840131d38af3dfc907c255bfbd99 /net/core
parent47a0200d535f08ac8f784a709c48995ca0b10288 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/ethtool.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 927819d92248..b6f405888538 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static const char netdev_features_strings[ETHTOOL_DEV_FEATURE_WORDS * 32][ETH_GS
/* NETIF_F_RXHASH */ "rx-hashing",
/* NETIF_F_RXCSUM */ "rx-checksum",
/* NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY */ "tx-nocache-copy"
- "",
+ /* NETIF_F_LOOPBACK */ "loopback",
};
static int __ethtool_get_sset_count(struct net_device *dev, int sset)