[RFC V3 PATCH 10/26] net/netpolicy: add three new NET policies

From: kan . liang
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 11:05:00 EST


From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>

Introduce three NET policies
CPU policy: configure for higher throughput and lower CPU% (power
saving).
BULK policy: configure for highest throughput.
LATENCY policy: configure for lowest latency.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netpolicy.h | 3 +++
net/core/netpolicy.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netpolicy.h b/include/linux/netpolicy.h
index 8596b6a..951227b 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpolicy.h
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@

enum netpolicy_name {
NET_POLICY_NONE = 0,
+ NET_POLICY_CPU,
+ NET_POLICY_BULK,
+ NET_POLICY_LATENCY,
NET_POLICY_MAX,
};

diff --git a/net/core/netpolicy.c b/net/core/netpolicy.c
index 511d1c6..1d796a8 100644
--- a/net/core/netpolicy.c
+++ b/net/core/netpolicy.c
@@ -226,7 +226,10 @@ static int netpolicy_enable(struct net_device *dev)
}

const char *policy_name[NET_POLICY_MAX] = {
- "NONE"
+ "NONE",
+ "CPU",
+ "BULK",
+ "LATENCY"
};

static u32 cpu_to_queue(struct net_device *dev,
--
2.5.5