i40e: refactor flow director

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The i40e hardware was generating some inconsistent results
when using current programming methods.  This refactor
fixes the inconsistencies that were preventing clean
unloads of the driver, and moves the queues for handling
flow director errors into their own hardware VSI.

This patch also implements a corrected version of the
basic ethtool add ntuple rule, which will disable
the driver's automatic flow programming.  A future patch
adds remove/replay/list support for ntuple.

Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Anjali Singhai Jain 2014-01-17 15:36:35 -08:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c

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