diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues
index 5e9aeb91d355..0c0df91b1516 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ Description:
 		Indicates the number of transmit timeout events seen by this
 		network interface transmit queue.
 
+What:		/sys/class/<iface>/queues/tx-<queue>/tx_maxrate
+Date:		March 2015
+KernelVersion:	4.1
+Contact:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		A Mbps max-rate set for the queue, a value of zero means disabled,
+		default is disabled.
+
 What:		/sys/class/<iface>/queues/tx-<queue>/xps_cpus
 Date:		November 2010
 KernelVersion:	2.6.38
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
index 99ca40e8e810..cbfac0949635 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
@@ -421,6 +421,15 @@ best CPUs to share a given queue are probably those that share the cache
 with the CPU that processes transmit completions for that queue
 (transmit interrupts).
 
+Per TX Queue rate limitation:
+=============================
+
+These are rate-limitation mechanisms implemented by HW, where currently
+a max-rate attribute is supported, by setting a Mbps value to
+
+/sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/tx-<n>/tx_maxrate
+
+A value of zero means disabled, and this is the default.
 
 Further Information
 ===================
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index dd1d069758be..76c5de4978a8 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ struct netdev_queue {
 #ifdef CONFIG_BQL
 	struct dql		dql;
 #endif
+	unsigned long		tx_maxrate;
 } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 static inline int netdev_queue_numa_node_read(const struct netdev_queue *q)
@@ -1022,6 +1023,10 @@ typedef u16 (*select_queue_fallback_t)(struct net_device *dev,
  *	be otherwise expressed by feature flags. The check is called with
  *	the set of features that the stack has calculated and it returns
  *	those the driver believes to be appropriate.
+ * int (*ndo_set_tx_maxrate)(struct net_device *dev,
+ *			     int queue_index, u32 maxrate);
+ *	Called when a user wants to set a max-rate limitation of specific
+ *	TX queue.
  */
 struct net_device_ops {
 	int			(*ndo_init)(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -1178,6 +1183,9 @@ struct net_device_ops {
 	netdev_features_t	(*ndo_features_check) (struct sk_buff *skb,
 						       struct net_device *dev,
 						       netdev_features_t features);
+	int			(*ndo_set_tx_maxrate)(struct net_device *dev,
+						      int queue_index,
+						      u32 maxrate);
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index cf30620a88e1..7e58bd7ec232 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -951,6 +951,60 @@ static ssize_t show_trans_timeout(struct netdev_queue *queue,
 	return sprintf(buf, "%lu", trans_timeout);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_XPS
+static inline unsigned int get_netdev_queue_index(struct netdev_queue *queue)
+{
+	struct net_device *dev = queue->dev;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++)
+		if (queue == &dev->_tx[i])
+			break;
+
+	BUG_ON(i >= dev->num_tx_queues);
+
+	return i;
+}
+
+static ssize_t show_tx_maxrate(struct netdev_queue *queue,
+			       struct netdev_queue_attribute *attribute,
+			       char *buf)
+{
+	return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", queue->tx_maxrate);
+}
+
+static ssize_t set_tx_maxrate(struct netdev_queue *queue,
+			      struct netdev_queue_attribute *attribute,
+			      const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	struct net_device *dev = queue->dev;
+	int err, index = get_netdev_queue_index(queue);
+	u32 rate = 0;
+
+	err = kstrtou32(buf, 10, &rate);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	if (!rtnl_trylock())
+		return restart_syscall();
+
+	err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_set_tx_maxrate)
+		err = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_set_tx_maxrate(dev, index, rate);
+
+	rtnl_unlock();
+	if (!err) {
+		queue->tx_maxrate = rate;
+		return len;
+	}
+	return err;
+}
+
+static struct netdev_queue_attribute queue_tx_maxrate =
+	__ATTR(tx_maxrate, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
+	       show_tx_maxrate, set_tx_maxrate);
+#endif
+
 static struct netdev_queue_attribute queue_trans_timeout =
 	__ATTR(tx_timeout, S_IRUGO, show_trans_timeout, NULL);
 
@@ -1065,18 +1119,6 @@ static struct attribute_group dql_group = {
 #endif /* CONFIG_BQL */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_XPS
-static unsigned int get_netdev_queue_index(struct netdev_queue *queue)
-{
-	struct net_device *dev = queue->dev;
-	unsigned int i;
-
-	i = queue - dev->_tx;
-	BUG_ON(i >= dev->num_tx_queues);
-
-	return i;
-}
-
-
 static ssize_t show_xps_map(struct netdev_queue *queue,
 			    struct netdev_queue_attribute *attribute, char *buf)
 {
@@ -1153,6 +1195,7 @@ static struct attribute *netdev_queue_default_attrs[] = {
 	&queue_trans_timeout.attr,
 #ifdef CONFIG_XPS
 	&xps_cpus_attribute.attr,
+	&queue_tx_maxrate.attr,
 #endif
 	NULL
 };