Simple interface to allow changing network device scheduling weight
with sysfs. Please consider this for 2.6.12, since risk/impact is small.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Index: napi-sysfs/net/core/net-sysfs.c
===================================================================
--- napi-sysfs.orig/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ napi-sysfs/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -184,6 +184,22 @@ static ssize_t store_tx_queue_len(struct
static CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(tx_queue_len, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_tx_queue_len,
store_tx_queue_len);
+NETDEVICE_SHOW(weight, fmt_ulong);
+
+static int change_weight(struct net_device *net, unsigned long new_weight)
+{
+ net->weight = new_weight;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static ssize_t store_weight(struct class_device *dev, const char *buf, size_t
len)
+{
+ return netdev_store(dev, buf, len, change_weight);
+}
+
+static CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(weight, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_weight,
+ store_weight);
+
static struct class_device_attribute *net_class_attributes[] = {
&class_device_attr_ifindex,
@@ -193,6 +209,7 @@ static struct class_device_attribute *ne
&class_device_attr_features,
&class_device_attr_mtu,
&class_device_attr_flags,
+ &class_device_attr_weight,
&class_device_attr_type,
&class_device_attr_address,
&class_device_attr_broadcast,
|