Commit d1a890fa authored by Shreyas Bhatewara's avatar Shreyas Bhatewara Committed by David S. Miller

net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3

From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3
Guests running on VMware hypervisors supporting vmxnet3 device will thus have
access to improved network functionalities and performance.
Signed-off-by: default avatarShreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRonghua Zhang <ronghua@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b9696ea3
......@@ -5612,6 +5612,13 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c
F: include/linux/vlynq.h
VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
M: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
M: VMware, Inc. <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/vmxnet3/
VOLTAGE AND CURRENT REGULATOR FRAMEWORK
M: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
M: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
......
......@@ -3230,4 +3230,12 @@ config VIRTIO_NET
This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
config VMXNET3
tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
depends on PCI && X86
help
This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called vmxnet3.
endif # NETDEVICES
......@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEHUTI) += tehuti.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ENIC) += enic/
obj-$(CONFIG_JME) += jme.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BE2NET) += benet/
obj-$(CONFIG_VMXNET3) += vmxnet3/
gianfar_driver-objs := gianfar.o \
gianfar_ethtool.o \
......
################################################################################
#
# Linux driver for VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC.
#
# Copyright (C) 2007-2009, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License and no later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
# NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
# details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#
# The full GNU General Public License is included in this distribution in
# the file called "COPYING".
#
# Maintained by: Shreyas Bhatewara <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
#
#
################################################################################
#
# Makefile for the VMware vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver
#
obj-$(CONFIG_VMXNET3) += vmxnet3.o
vmxnet3-objs := vmxnet3_drv.o vmxnet3_ethtool.o
/*
* Linux driver for VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC.
*
* Copyright (C) 2008-2009, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License and no later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
* NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
* details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
*
* The full GNU General Public License is included in this distribution in
* the file called "COPYING".
*
* Maintained by: Shreyas Bhatewara <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
*
*/
#ifndef _UPT1_DEFS_H
#define _UPT1_DEFS_H
struct UPT1_TxStats {
u64 TSOPktsTxOK; /* TSO pkts post-segmentation */
u64 TSOBytesTxOK;
u64 ucastPktsTxOK;
u64 ucastBytesTxOK;
u64 mcastPktsTxOK;
u64 mcastBytesTxOK;
u64 bcastPktsTxOK;
u64 bcastBytesTxOK;
u64 pktsTxError;
u64 pktsTxDiscard;
};
struct UPT1_RxStats {
u64 LROPktsRxOK; /* LRO pkts */
u64 LROBytesRxOK; /* bytes from LRO pkts */
/* the following counters are for pkts from the wire, i.e., pre-LRO */
u64 ucastPktsRxOK;
u64 ucastBytesRxOK;
u64 mcastPktsRxOK;
u64 mcastBytesRxOK;
u64 bcastPktsRxOK;
u64 bcastBytesRxOK;
u64 pktsRxOutOfBuf;
u64 pktsRxError;
};
/* interrupt moderation level */
enum {
UPT1_IML_NONE = 0, /* no interrupt moderation */
UPT1_IML_HIGHEST = 7, /* least intr generated */
UPT1_IML_ADAPTIVE = 8, /* adpative intr moderation */
};
/* values for UPT1_RSSConf.hashFunc */
enum {
UPT1_RSS_HASH_TYPE_NONE = 0x0,
UPT1_RSS_HASH_TYPE_IPV4 = 0x01,
UPT1_RSS_HASH_TYPE_TCP_IPV4 = 0x02,
UPT1_RSS_HASH_TYPE_IPV6 = 0x04,
UPT1_RSS_HASH_TYPE_TCP_IPV6 = 0x08,
};
enum {
UPT1_RSS_HASH_FUNC_NONE = 0x0,
UPT1_RSS_HASH_FUNC_TOEPLITZ = 0x01,
};
#define UPT1_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE 40
#define UPT1_RSS_MAX_IND_TABLE_SIZE 128
struct UPT1_RSSConf {
u16 hashType;
u16 hashFunc;
u16 hashKeySize;
u16 indTableSize;
u8 hashKey[UPT1_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
u8 indTable[UPT1_RSS_MAX_IND_TABLE_SIZE];
};
/* features */
enum {
UPT1_F_RXCSUM = 0x0001, /* rx csum verification */
UPT1_F_RSS = 0x0002,
UPT1_F_RXVLAN = 0x0004, /* VLAN tag stripping */
UPT1_F_LRO = 0x0008,
};
#endif
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