ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driver

This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe
driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the
kernel.  The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) -
which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic
based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) -
which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at
granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alexander Duyck 2008-11-20 20:52:10 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 9db66bdcc8
commit 2f90b8657e
19 changed files with 2593 additions and 19 deletions

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@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ enum {
RTM_GETADDRLABEL,
#define RTM_GETADDRLABEL RTM_GETADDRLABEL
RTM_GETDCB = 78,
#define RTM_GETDCB RTM_GETDCB
RTM_SETDCB,
#define RTM_SETDCB RTM_SETDCB
__RTM_MAX,
#define RTM_MAX (((__RTM_MAX + 3) & ~3) - 1)
};