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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index 9d98e0511249..cae28af7a476 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -860,8 +860,16 @@ Kernel response contents: ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_JUMBO`` u32 size of RX jumbo ring ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TX`` u32 size of TX ring ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_BUF_LEN`` u32 size of buffers on the ring + ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TCP_DATA_SPLIT`` u8 TCP header / data split ==================================== ====== =========================== +``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TCP_DATA_SPLIT`` indicates whether the device is usable with +page-flipping TCP zero-copy receive (``getsockopt(TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE)``). +If enabled the device is configured to place frame headers and data into +separate buffers. The device configuration must make it possible to receive +full memory pages of data, for example because MTU is high enough or through +HW-GRO. + RINGS_SET ========= |