From 1e09e5818b3a07ee824addf0d048df3797de687e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Wunner Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:49:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] pktgen: Allow on loopback device When pktgen is used to measure the performance of dev_queue_xmit() packet handling in the core, it is preferable to not hand down packets to a low-level Ethernet driver as it would distort the measurements. Allow using pktgen on the loopback device, thus constraining measurements to core code. Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/pktgen.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index acc849df60b5..f2b3d8dd40f4 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -2003,8 +2003,8 @@ static int pktgen_setup_dev(const struct pktgen_net *pn, return -ENODEV; } - if (odev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER) { - pr_err("not an ethernet device: \"%s\"\n", ifname); + if (odev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER && odev->type != ARPHRD_LOOPBACK) { + pr_err("not an ethernet or loopback device: \"%s\"\n", ifname); err = -EINVAL; } else if (!netif_running(odev)) { pr_err("device is down: \"%s\"\n", ifname); -- 2.30.2