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net: Allow ethtool to set interface in loopback mode.

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This patch enables ethtool to set the loopback mode on a given interface.
By configuring the interface in loopback mode in conjunction with a policy
route / rule, a userland application can stress the egress / ingress path
exposing the flows of the change in progress and potentially help developer(s)
understand the impact of those changes without even sending a packet out
on the network.

Following set of commands illustrates one such example -
    a) ip -4 addr add 192.168.1.1/24 dev eth1
    b) ip -4 rule add from all iif eth1 lookup 250
    c) ip -4 route add local 0/0 dev lo proto kernel scope host table 250
    d) arp -Ds 192.168.1.100 eth1
    e) arp -Ds 192.168.1.200 eth1
    f) sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1
    g) sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_local=1
    # Assuming that the machine has 8 cores
    h) taskset 000f netserver -L 192.168.1.200
    i) taskset 00f0 netperf -t TCP_CRR -L 192.168.1.100 -H 192.168.1.200 -l 30

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mahesh Bandewar 2011-05-04 15:30:11 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
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drivers/net/loopback.c
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@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
| NETIF_F_HIGHDMA
| NETIF_F_LLTX
| NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL
| NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED;
| NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED
| NETIF_F_LOOPBACK;
dev->ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops;
dev->header_ops = &eth_header_ops;
dev->netdev_ops = &loopback_ops;