diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
index ae832b4..0594933 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -796,6 +796,31 @@
 	__u32		location;
 };
 
+/* How rings are layed out when accessing virtual functions or
+ * offloaded queues is device specific. To allow users to do flow
+ * steering and specify these queues the ring cookie is partitioned
+ * into a 32bit queue index with an 8 bit virtual function id.
+ * This also leaves the 3bytes for further specifiers. It is possible
+ * future devices may support more than 256 virtual functions if
+ * devices start supporting PCIe w/ARI. However at the moment I
+ * do not know of any devices that support this so I do not reserve
+ * space for this at this time. If a future patch consumes the next
+ * byte it should be aware of this possiblity.
+ */
+#define ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING	0x00000000FFFFFFFFLL
+#define ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING_VF	0x000000FF00000000LL
+#define ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING_VF_OFF 32
+static inline __u64 ethtool_get_flow_spec_ring(__u64 ring_cookie)
+{
+	return ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING & ring_cookie;
+};
+
+static inline __u64 ethtool_get_flow_spec_ring_vf(__u64 ring_cookie)
+{
+	return (ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING_VF & ring_cookie) >>
+				ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING_VF_OFF;
+};
+
 /**
  * struct ethtool_rxnfc - command to get or set RX flow classification rules
  * @cmd: Specific command number - %ETHTOOL_GRXFH, %ETHTOOL_SRXFH,