ibmvnic: Add ethtool private flag for driver-defined queue limits

When choosing channel amounts and ring sizes, the maximums in the
ibmvnic driver are defined by the virtual i/o server management
partition. Even though they are defined as maximums, the client
driver may in fact successfully request resources that exceed
these limits, which are mostly dependent on a user's hardware

With this in mind, provide an ethtool flag that when enabled will
allow the user to request resources limited by driver-defined
maximums instead of limits defined by the management partition.
The driver will try to honor the user's request but may not allowed
by the management partition. In this case, the driver requests
as close as it can get to the desired amount until it succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h
index f9a12e5843c4..18103b811d4d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@
 #define IBMVNIC_MAX_LTB_SIZE ((1 << (MAX_ORDER - 1)) * PAGE_SIZE)
 #define IBMVNIC_BUFFER_HLEN 500
 
+static const char ibmvnic_priv_flags[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
+#define IBMVNIC_USE_SERVER_MAXES 0x1
+	"use-server-maxes"
+};
+
 struct ibmvnic_login_buffer {
 	__be32 len;
 	__be32 version;
@@ -970,6 +975,7 @@ struct ibmvnic_adapter {
 	struct ibmvnic_control_ip_offload_buffer ip_offload_ctrl;
 	dma_addr_t ip_offload_ctrl_tok;
 	u32 msg_enable;
+	u32 priv_flags;
 
 	/* Vital Product Data (VPD) */
 	struct ibmvnic_vpd *vpd;