The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new
behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained.
Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its
default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be
a more reliable replacement for the latter.
Core
----
- Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock
scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention
significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising:
- RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path
- introduce basic per netns locking helpers
- namespacified the IPv4 address hash table
- remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of rtnl_register_many()
- refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as
possible out of RTNL lock
- convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU
- convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL
- convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL
the per-netns lock infra is guarded by the CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL
knob, disabled by default ad interim.
- Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy
polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing.
- Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct
ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN
handling consistent and reliable.
- Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing
better introspection in case of packets drop.
- Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read
access.
- Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable.
- Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets
and timestamps
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code
--------------------------------------------
- Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops size.
- Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag API,
This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag
implementation.
Netfilter
---------
- Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption
- Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure.
- Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users
the option to configure iptables without enabling any other config.
- Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent
CI improvements.
BPF
---
- Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall,
this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads.
- Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in
combination with BPF cpumap.
- Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also
add a batch of new BPF selftests for it.
- Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb->{mark,priority}
scrubbing to its BPF program.
- Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF
programs.
Protocols
---------
- Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up
significantly connected sockets lookup.
- Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after close,
the socket lock contention.
- Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state lookups.
- Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing
risks on loosing them.
- Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per device
neigh lists.
Driver API
----------
- Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W shaping,
and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink.
- Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi
configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation.
Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are:
nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice.
- Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks.
- Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core.
- Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror
offload.
- Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on
device-specific entries.
- Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space.
- Support master-slave PHY config via device tree.
Tests and tooling
-----------------
- forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify
the cleanup phase
Drivers
-------
- Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic,
Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the
IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better
introspection.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx5:
- a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch
scheduling
- refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better
- H/W GRO cleanups
- Intel (100G, ice)::
- adds support for ethtool reset
- implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping
- AMD/Solarflare:
- implement per device queue stats support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules
- Marvell Octeon:
- Adds representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit
(RVU) device.
- Hisilicon:
- adds support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet
- IBM (EMAC):
- driver cleanup and modernization
- Cisco (VIC):
- raise the queues number limit to 256
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google vNIC:
- implements page pool support
- macsec:
- inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when offloading
- virtio_net:
- enable premapped mode by default
- support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX
- wireguard:
- set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger
packets.
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Broadcom ASP:
- enable software timestamping
- Freescale:
- add enetc4 PF driver
- MediaTek: Airoha SoC:
- implement BQL support
- RealTek r8169:
- enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125
- implement extended ethtool stats
- Renesas AVB:
- enable TX checksum offload
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support header splitting for vlan tagged packets
- move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE
module.
- Add the dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC
- Synopsys (xpcs):
- driver refactor and cleanup
- TI:
- icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support
- Xilinx emaclite:
- adds clock support
- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip:
- implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family
- add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation
- Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2
- PTP:
- Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device
- Add PtP driver for s390 clocks
- WiFi:
- mac80211
- EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions
- new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added
- support radio separation of multi-band devices
- move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw
- Broadcom:
- brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support
- Microchip:
- add support for Atmel WILC3000
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- firmware coredump collection support
- add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics
- Qualcomm (ath5k):
- Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 & Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support
- Realtek:
- rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support
- rtw89: add thermal protection
- rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience
- rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip
- Bluetooth
- add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and
0x13d3:0x3623
- add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123
- add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids
- btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware
- btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism
- btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new
behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained.
Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its
default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be
a more reliable replacement for the latter.
Core:
- Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock
scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention
significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising:
- RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path
- introduce basic per netns locking helpers
- namespacified the IPv4 address hash table
- remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of
rtnl_register_many()
- refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as
possible out of RTNL lock
- convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU
- convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL
- convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL
the per-netns lock infrastructure is guarded by the
CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL knob, disabled by default ad interim.
- Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy
polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing.
- Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct
ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN
handling consistent and reliable.
- Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing
better introspection in case of packets drop.
- Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read access.
- Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable.
- Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets
and timestamps
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:
- Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops
size.
- Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag
API, This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag
implementation.
Netfilter:
- Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption
- Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure.
- Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users the
option to configure iptables without enabling any other config.
- Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent CI
improvements.
BPF:
- Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall,
this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads.
- Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in
combination with BPF cpumap.
- Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also
add a batch of new BPF selftests for it.
- Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb->{mark,priority}
scrubbing to its BPF program.
- Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF
programs.
Protocols:
- Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up
significantly connected sockets lookup.
- Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after
close, the socket lock contention.
- Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state
lookups.
- Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing
risks on loosing them.
- Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per
device neigh lists.
Driver API:
- Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W
shaping, and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink.
- Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi
configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation.
Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are:
nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice.
- Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks.
- Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core.
- Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror
offload.
- Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on
device-specific entries.
- Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space.
- Support master-slave PHY config via device tree.
Tests and tooling:
- forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify the cleanup
phase
Drivers:
- Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic,
Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the
IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better
introspection.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx5:
- a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch
scheduling
- refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better
- H/W GRO cleanups
- Intel (100G, ice)::
- add support for ethtool reset
- implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping
- AMD/Solarflare:
- implement per device queue stats support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules
- Marvell Octeon:
- Add representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit
(RVU) device.
- Hisilicon:
- add support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet
- IBM (EMAC):
- driver cleanup and modernization
- Cisco (VIC):
- raise the queues number limit to 256
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google vNIC:
- implement page pool support
- macsec:
- inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when
offloading
- virtio_net:
- enable premapped mode by default
- support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX
- wireguard:
- set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger
packets.
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Broadcom ASP:
- enable software timestamping
- Freescale:
- add enetc4 PF driver
- MediaTek: Airoha SoC:
- implement BQL support
- RealTek r8169:
- enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125
- implement extended ethtool stats
- Renesas AVB:
- enable TX checksum offload
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support header splitting for vlan tagged packets
- move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE
module.
- add dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC
- Synopsys (xpcs):
- driver refactor and cleanup
- TI:
- icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support
- Xilinx emaclite:
- add clock support
- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip:
- implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family
- add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation
- Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2
- PTP:
- Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device
- Add PtP driver for s390 clocks
- WiFi:
- mac80211
- EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions
- new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added
- support radio separation of multi-band devices
- move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw
- Broadcom:
- brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support
- Microchip:
- add support for Atmel WILC3000
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- firmware coredump collection support
- add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics
- Qualcomm (ath5k):
- Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 & Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support
- Realtek:
- rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support
- rtw89: add thermal protection
- rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience
- rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip
- Bluetooth
- add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and
0x13d3:0x3623
- add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123
- add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids
- btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware
- btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism
- btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature"
* tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1475 commits)
mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is not compiled
Documentation: tipc: fix formatting issue in tipc.rst
selftests: nic_performance: Add selftest for performance of NIC driver
selftests: nic_link_layer: Add selftest case for speed and duplex states
selftests: nic_link_layer: Add link layer selftest for NIC driver
bnxt_en: Add FW trace coredump segments to the coredump
bnxt_en: Add a new ethtool -W dump flag
bnxt_en: Add 2 parameters to bnxt_fill_coredump_seg_hdr()
bnxt_en: Add functions to copy host context memory
bnxt_en: Do not free FW log context memory
bnxt_en: Manage the FW trace context memory
bnxt_en: Allocate backing store memory for FW trace logs
bnxt_en: Add a 'force' parameter to bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
bnxt_en: Add mem_valid bit to struct bnxt_ctx_mem_type
bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.3.85
selftests/bpf: Add some tests with sockmap SK_PASS
bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SK_PASS
wireguard: device: support big tcp GSO
wireguard: selftests: load nf_conntrack if not present
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