net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3

From: Shreyas Bhatewara <[email protected]>

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: Shreyas Bhatewara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: Shreyas Bhatewara

MAINTAINERS

@@ -5612,6 +5612,13 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c
 F:	include/linux/vlynq.h
 
+VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
+M:     Shreyas Bhatewara <[email protected]>
+M:     VMware, Inc. <[email protected]>
+L:     [email protected]
+S:     Maintained
+F:     drivers/net/vmxnet3/
+
 VOLTAGE AND CURRENT REGULATOR FRAMEWORK
 M:	Liam Girdwood <[email protected]>
 M:	Mark Brown <[email protected]>

drivers/net/Kconfig

@@ -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

drivers/net/Makefile

@@ -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 \

drivers/net/vmxnet3/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# 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 <[email protected]>
+#
+#
+################################################################################
+
+#
+# Makefile for the VMware vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver
+#
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_VMXNET3) += vmxnet3.o
+
+vmxnet3-objs := vmxnet3_drv.o vmxnet3_ethtool.o

drivers/net/vmxnet3/upt1_defs.h

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+ * 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 <[email protected]>
+ *
+ */
+
+#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