Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow querying the interface
for the availability of switchdev Offloading NIC capabilities.
The switchdev mode was introduced in kernel 4.8, the iproute2-devlink
command to retrieve the switchdev NIC feature with command example:
devlink dev eswitch show pci/0000:03:00.0
This feature is needed for Openstack so we can do a scheduling decision
if the NIC is in Hardware Offload (switchdev) or regular SR-IOV (legacy) mode.
And select the appropriate hypervisors with the requested capability see [1].
[1] - https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/pike/approved/enable-sriov-nic-features.html
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow
it query the interface for the availability of RDMA and
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation Offloading NIC capabilities
Here is an example of the feature XML definition:
<device>
<name>net_eth4_90_e2_ba_5e_a5_45</name>
<path>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:08:00.1/net/eth4</path>
<parent>pci_0000_08_00_1</parent>
<capability type='net'>
<interface>eth4</interface>
<address>90:e2:ba:5e:a5:45</address>
<link speed='10000' state='up'/>
<feature name='rx'/>
<feature name='tx'/>
<feature name='sg'/>
<feature name='tso'/>
<feature name='gso'/>
<feature name='gro'/>
<feature name='rxvlan'/>
<feature name='txvlan'/>
<feature name='rxhash'/>
<feature name='rdma'/>
<feature name='txudptnl'/>
<capability type='80203'/>
</capability>
</device>
Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow it
query the ethtool interface for the availability
of certain NIC HW offload features
Here is an example of the feature XML definition:
<device>
<name>net_eth4_90_e2_ba_5e_a5_45</name>
<path>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:08:00.1/net/eth4</path>
<parent>pci_0000_08_00_1</parent>
<capability type='net'>
<interface>eth4</interface>
<address>90:e2:ba:5e:a5:45</address>
<link speed='10000' state='up'/>
<feature name='rx'/>
<feature name='tx'/>
<feature name='sg'/>
<feature name='tso'/>
<feature name='gso'/>
<feature name='gro'/>
<feature name='rxvlan'/>
<feature name='txvlan'/>
<feature name='rxhash'/>
<capability type='80203'/>
</capability>
</device>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add a test to check node device XML parsing by first parsing
the XML, then re-formatting as XML and finally comparing the
resulting XML to the original XML.
