macvlan: Support for high multicast packet rate

Background:
Broadcast and multicast packages are enqueued for later processing.
This queue was previously hardcoded to 1000.

This proved insufficient for handling very high packet rates.
This resulted in packet drops for multicast.
While at the same time unicast worked fine.

The change:
This patch make the queue length adjustable to accommodate
for environments with very high multicast packet rate.
But still keeps the default value of 1000 unless specified.

The queue length is specified as a request per macvlan
using the IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN parameter.

The actual used queue length will then be the maximum of
any macvlan connected to the same port. The actual used
queue length for the port can be retrieved (read only)
by the IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN_USED parameter for verification.

This will be followed up by a patch to iproute2
in order to adjust the parameter from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Karlsson <thomas.karlsson@paneda.se>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd4673b2-7eab-edda-6815-85c67ce87f63@paneda.se
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index c4b23f06f69e..874cc12a34d9 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -588,6 +588,8 @@ enum {
 	IFLA_MACVLAN_MACADDR,
 	IFLA_MACVLAN_MACADDR_DATA,
 	IFLA_MACVLAN_MACADDR_COUNT,
+	IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN,
+	IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN_USED,
 	__IFLA_MACVLAN_MAX,
 };