From: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:49:31 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: util-ioctl: Add function to get number of RSS queues on iface
X-Git-Tag: suricata-2.1beta3~119
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4bb6e67ba10a432c84f2e81fcbbebc911999110;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git

util-ioctl: Add function to get number of RSS queues on iface

The number of RSS queues can be fetched via a standard ioctl which
is independant of hardware.
---

diff --git a/src/util-ioctl.c b/src/util-ioctl.c
index f46004213e..b3a0f22478 100644
--- a/src/util-ioctl.c
+++ b/src/util-ioctl.c
@@ -210,3 +210,36 @@ int GetIfaceOffloading(char *pcap_dev)
 #endif
 }
 
+int GetIfaceRSSQueuesNum(const char *pcap_dev)
+{
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_ETHTOOL_H
+    struct ifreq ifr;
+    struct ethtool_rxnfc nfccmd;
+    int fd;
+
+    (void)strlcpy(ifr.ifr_name, pcap_dev, sizeof(ifr.ifr_name));
+    fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
+    if (fd == -1) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    nfccmd.cmd = ETHTOOL_GRXRINGS;
+    ifr.ifr_data = (void*) &nfccmd;
+
+    if (ioctl(fd, SIOCETHTOOL, (char *)&ifr) < 0) {
+        if (errno != ENOTSUP) {
+            SCLogWarning(SC_ERR_SYSCALL,
+                         "Failure when trying to get number of RSS queue ioctl: %d",
+                         errno);
+        }
+        close(fd);
+        return 0;
+    }
+    close(fd);
+    SCLogInfo("Found %d RX RSS queues for '%s'", (int)nfccmd.data,
+            pcap_dev);
+    return (int)nfccmd.data;
+#else
+    return 0;
+#endif
+}
diff --git a/src/util-ioctl.h b/src/util-ioctl.h
index 7bc5055710..d293a4d047 100644
--- a/src/util-ioctl.h
+++ b/src/util-ioctl.h
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@
 int GetIfaceMTU(char *pcap_dev);
 int GetIfaceMaxPacketSize(char *pcap_dev);
 int GetIfaceOffloading(char *pcap_dev);
+int GetIfaceRSSQueuesNum(const char *pcap_dev);