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Eric Dumazet
0201eedb69 ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow()
Following part was needed before the blamed commit, because
inet_getpeer_v6() second argument was the prefix.

	/* Give more bandwidth to wider prefixes. */
	if (rt->rt6i_dst.plen < 128)
		tmo >>= ((128 - rt->rt6i_dst.plen)>>5);

Now inet_getpeer_v6() retrieves hosts, we need to remove
@tmo adjustement or wider prefixes likes /24 allow 8x
more ICMP to be sent for a given ratelimit.

As we had this issue for a while, this patch changes net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit
default value from 1000ms to 100ms to avoid potential regressions.

Also add a READ_ONCE() when reading net->ipv6.sysctl.icmpv6_time.

Fixes: fd0273d793 ("ipv6: Remove external dependency on rt6i_dst and rt6i_src")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216142832.3834174-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-18 16:46:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
37a93dd5c4 Networking changes for 7.0
Core & protocols
 ----------------
 
  - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
    make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls for
    small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path. This
    generates better and faster code with very small or no text size
    increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than the
    actual inlined helper.
 
  - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
    also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
    basis.
 
  - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
    Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
    buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage by
    up to ~30%.
 
  - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the RX
    path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
    user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without the
    HBH hint.
 
  - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
    resolved out of a different interface than the one specified, aligning
    IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.
 
  - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the rate
    shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing a
    single global rate on the interface.
 
  - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
    netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that
    are safer in crash scenarios.
 
  - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information, saving
    cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.
 
  - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most protocols,
    avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.
 
  - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.
 
  - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.
 
  - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies between
    the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.
 
  - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
    across different network namespaces.
 
  - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
    optimizations.
 
  - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
    to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes back
    online.
 
 Driver API
 ----------
 
  - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a DPLL
    device via netlink.
 
  - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
    media ports over a single MAC.
 
  - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties, to
    generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential signaling.
 
  - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.
 
 Device drivers
 --------------
 
  - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.
 
  - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet controller.
 
  - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches
 
  - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.
 
  - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
    hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().
 
  - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
    ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.
 
  - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
    - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
      - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram and
        NVRAM defragmentation
      - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
    - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
      - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the used
        H/W resources
      - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
      - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
      - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO, leading to
        12% RX tput improvement
    - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
      - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
        locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new layouts
      - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
    - Meta (fbnic):
      - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors
 
  - Ethernet virtual:
    - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation
 
  - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
    - Synopsys (stmmac):
      - some code refactoring and cleanups
    - RealTek (r8169):
      - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
      - add dash and LTR support
    - Airoha:
      - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
    - Freescale (fec):
      - add XDP zero-copy support
    - Thunderbolt:
      - add get link setting support to allow bonding
    - Renesas:
      - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC
 
  - Ethernet switches:
    - Maxlinear:
      - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
      - add support for Intel GSW150
    - Motorcomm (yt921x):
      - add DCB/QoS support
    - TI:
      - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
        framework
 
  - Ethernet PHYs:
    - Realtek:
      - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
      - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
    - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema
 
  - CAN:
    - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN metadata
      access more robust
 
  - CAN drivers:
    - rcar_canfd:
      - add support for FD-only mode
      - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
    - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling
 
  - WiFi:
    - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
    - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
    - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
      spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
    - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
    - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211
 
  - WiFi drivers:
    - Qualcomm/Atheros:
      - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
      - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support
        multi-wiphy devices and and pave the way for future device support
        in the same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
      - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
    - Intel:
      - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
      - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
    - RealTek (rtw89):
      - preparations for RTL8922DE support
 
  - Bluetooth:
    - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
    - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections
 
  - Bluetooth drivers:
    - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
    - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature
 
 Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core & protocols:

   - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
     make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
     for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

     This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
     size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
     the actual inlined helper.

   - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
     also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
     basis.

   - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
     Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
     buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
     by up to ~30%.

   - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
     RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
     user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
     the HBH hint.

   - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
     resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
     aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

   - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
     rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
     a single global rate on the interface.

   - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
     netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
     that are safer in crash scenarios.

   - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
     saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

   - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
     protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

   - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

   - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

   - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
     between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

   - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
     across different network namespaces.

   - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
     optimizations.

   - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
     to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
     back online.

  Driver API:

   - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
     DPLL device via netlink.

   - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
     media ports over a single MAC.

   - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
     to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
     signaling.

   - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

   - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
     controller.

   - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

   - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

   - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
     hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

   - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
     ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
         - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
           and NVRAM defragmentation
         - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
           used H/W resources
         - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
         - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
         - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
           leading to 12% RX tput improvement
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
           locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
           layouts
         - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - some code refactoring and cleanups
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
         - add dash and LTR support
      - Airoha:
         - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
      - Freescale (fec):
         - add XDP zero-copy support
      - Thunderbolt:
         - add get link setting support to allow bonding
      - Renesas:
         - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear:
         - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
         - add support for Intel GSW150
      - Motorcomm (yt921x):
         - add DCB/QoS support
      - TI:
         - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
           framework

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Realtek:
         - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
         - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
      - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

   - CAN:
      - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
        metadata access more robust

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd:
         - add support for FD-only mode
         - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
      - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

   - WiFi:
      - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
      - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
      - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
        spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
      - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
      - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
         - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
           devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
           same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
         - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
         - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - preparations for RTL8922DE support

   - Bluetooth:
      - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
      - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
      - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
  bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
  net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
  af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
  net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
  net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
  selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
  octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
  net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
  ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
  tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
  tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
  tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
  ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6
  ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
  ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
  ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
  net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
  ...
2026-02-11 19:31:52 -08:00
Chia-Yu Chang
1247fb19ca tcp: accecn: detect loss ACK w/ AccECN option and add TCP_ACCECN_OPTION_PERSIST
Detect spurious retransmission of a previously sent ACK carrying the
AccECN option after the second retransmission. Since this might be caused
by the middlebox dropping ACK with options it does not recognize, disable
the sending of the AccECN option in all subsequent ACKs. This patch
follows Section 3.2.3.2.2 of AccECN spec (RFC9768), and a new field
(accecn_opt_sent_w_dsack) is added to indicate that an AccECN option was
sent with duplicate SACK info.

Also, a new AccECN option sending mode is added to tcp_ecn_option sysctl:
(TCP_ECN_OPTION_PERSIST), which ignores the AccECN fallback policy and
persistently sends AccECN option once it fits into TCP option space.

Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131222515.8485-13-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:13:25 +01:00
Ilpo Järvinen
7885ce0147 tcp: try to avoid safer when ACKs are thinned
Add newly acked pkts EWMA. When ACK thinning occurs, select
between safer and unsafe cep delta in AccECN processing based
on it. If the packets ACKed per ACK tends to be large, don't
conservatively assume ACE field overflow.

This patch uses the existing 2-byte holes in the rx group for new
u16 variables withtout creating more holes. Below are the pahole
outcomes before and after this patch:

[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
    [...]
    u32                        delivered_ecn_bytes[3]; /*  2744    12 */
    /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

    [...]
    __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0];       /*  2816     0 */

    [...]
    /* size: 3264, cachelines: 51, members: 177 */
}

[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
    [...]
    u32                        delivered_ecn_bytes[3]; /*  2744    12 */
    u16                        pkts_acked_ewma;        /*  2756     2 */
    /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */

    [...]
    __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0];       /*  2816     0 */

    [...]
    /* size: 3264, cachelines: 51, members: 178 */
}

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131222515.8485-2-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:13:24 +01:00
Jakub Kicinski
ba9c5611f0 docs: networking: mention that RSS table should be 4x the queue count
Spell out the recommendation that the RSS table should be
4x the queue count to avoid traffic imbalance. Include minor
rephrasing and removal of the explicit 128 entry example
since a 128 entry table is inadequate on modern machines.

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131225454.1225151-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-02 17:06:00 -08:00
Ethan Nelson-Moore
aba0138eb7 net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver
The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10
Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been
manufactured in years. On x86, it was quickly replaced by PCIe. While
it stuck around longer on POWER hardware, the last POWER hardware to
support it was POWER7, which is not supported by ppc64le Linux
distributions. The last supported mainstream ppc64 Linux distribution
was RHEL 7; while it is still supported under ELS, ELS is only
available for x86 and IBM Z. It is possible to use many PCI-X cards in
standard PCI slots (which are still available on new motherboards), but
it does not make sense to do so for 10 Gigabit Ethernet because the
maximum bandwidth of standard PCI is only 1067 Mbps. It is therefore
highly unlikely that this driver is still being used. Remove the
driver, and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file (restoring
credit for the vxge driver, which was removed in commit f05643a0f6
("eth: remove neterion/vxge").

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260126031352.22997-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-28 20:08:07 -08:00
Dimitri Daskalakis
3085ff59fe Documentation: net: Fix typos in netdevices.rst
Fixes two minor typos. Specifically, on -> or and Devices -> Device.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Daskalakis <dimitri.daskalakis1@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122225723.2368698-1-dimitri.daskalakis1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-25 13:03:43 -08:00
Jani Nikula
a592a36e49 Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.

For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.

This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.

Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.

For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
2026-01-23 11:59:34 -07:00
Vadim Fedorenko
5062245a5a net: remove legacy way to get/set HW timestamp config
With all drivers converted to use ndo_hwstamp callbacks the legacy way
can be removed, marking ioctl interface as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116062121.1230184-1-vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-20 18:21:27 -08:00
Jakub Kicinski
677a51790b Merge tag 'net-queue-rx-buf-len-v9' of https://github.com/isilence/linux
Pavel Begunkov says:

====================
Add support for providers with large rx buffer

Many modern NICs support configurable receive buffer lengths, and zcrx and
memory providers can use buffers larger than 4K to improve performance.
When paired with hw-gro larger rx buffer sizes can drastically reduce
the number of buffers traversing the stack and save a lot of processing
time. It also allows to give to users larger contiguous chunks of data.

Single stream benchmarks showed up to ~30% CPU util improvement.
E.g. comparison for 4K vs 32K buffers using a 200Gbit NIC:

packets=23987040 (MB=2745098), rps=199559 (MB/s=22837)
CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft   %idle
  0    1.53    0.00   27.78    2.72    1.31   66.45    0.22
packets=24078368 (MB=2755550), rps=200319 (MB/s=22924)
CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft   %idle
  0    0.69    0.00    8.26   31.65    1.83   57.00    0.57

This series adds net infrastructure for memory providers configuring
the size and implements it for bnxt. It's an opt-in feature for drivers,
they should advertise support for the parameter in the qops and must check
if the hardware supports the given size. It's limited to memory providers
as it drastically simplifies implementation. It doesn't affect the fast
path zcrx uAPI, and the user exposed parameter is defined in zcrx terms,
which allows it to be flexible and adjusted in the future.

A liburing example can be found at [2]

full branch:
[1] https://github.com/isilence/linux.git zcrx/large-buffers-v8
Liburing example:
[2] https://github.com/isilence/liburing.git zcrx/rx-buf-len

* tag 'net-queue-rx-buf-len-v9' of https://github.com/isilence/linux:
  io_uring/zcrx: document area chunking parameter
  selftests: iou-zcrx: test large chunk sizes
  eth: bnxt: support qcfg provided rx page size
  eth: bnxt: adjust the fill level of agg queues with larger buffers
  eth: bnxt: store rx buffer size per queue
  net: pass queue rx page size from memory provider
  net: add bare bone queue configs
  net: reduce indent of struct netdev_queue_mgmt_ops members
  net: memzero mp params when closing a queue
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-20 18:10:04 -08:00
Shahar Shitrit
8fc8071041 docs: tls: Enhance TLS resync async process documentation
Expand the tls-offload.rst documentation to provide a more detailed
explanation of the asynchronous resync process, including the role
of struct tls_offload_resync_async in managing resync requests on
the kernel side.

Also, add documentation for helper functions
tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_start/ _end/ _cancel.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1768298883-1602599-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-17 15:26:13 -08:00
Heiner Kallweit
b1b77c82ce net: phy: remove unused fixup unregistering functions
No user of PHY fixups unregisters these. IOW: The fixup unregistering
functions are unused and can be removed. Remove also documentation
for these functions. Whilst at it, remove also mentioning of
phy_register_fixup() from the Documentation, as this function has been
static since ea47e70e47 ("net: phy: remove fixup-related definitions
from phy.h which are not used outside phylib").

Fixup unregistering functions were added with f38e7a32ee
("phy: add phy fixup unregister functions") in 2016, and last user
was removed with 6782d06a47 ("net: usb: lan78xx: Remove KSZ9031 PHY
fixup") in 2024.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ff8ac321-435c-48d0-b376-fbca80c0c22e@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-15 19:48:26 -08:00
Maxime Chevallier
62518b5b3d Documentation: networking: Document the phy_port infrastructure
This documentation aims at describing the main goal of the phy_port
infrastructure.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108080041.553250-15-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-13 18:52:36 -08:00
Pavel Begunkov
d1de61db15 io_uring/zcrx: document area chunking parameter
struct io_uring_zcrx_ifq_reg::rx_buf_len is used as a hint specifying
the kernel what buffer size it should use. Document the API and
limitations.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
2026-01-14 02:13:37 +00:00
Vladimir Oltean
4e4c00f34d Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
Keep the documentation up to date.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251130131657.65080-16-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-12-01 16:51:55 -08:00
Vladimir Oltean
977839161f Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
Since commit 5055cccfc2 ("net: hsr: Provide RedBox support
(HSR-SAN)"), RedBox is available (including for offload in DSA).

Update the DSA documentation that states it isn't.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251130131657.65080-15-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-12-01 16:51:49 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
9a5e5334ad tcp: remove icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer
Now sk->sk_timer is no longer used by TCP keepalive, we can use
its storage for TCP and MPTCP retransmit timers for better
cache locality.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124175013.1473655-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-25 19:28:29 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
08dfe37023 tcp: introduce icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer
sk->sk_timer has been used for TCP keepalives.

Keepalive timers are not in fast path, we want to use sk->sk_timer
storage for retransmit timers, for better cache locality.

Create icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer and change keepalive
code to no longer use sk->sk_timer.

Added space is reclaimed in the following patch.

This includes changes to MPTCP, which was also using sk_timer.

Alias icsk->mptcp_tout_timer and icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer
for inet_sk_diag_fill() sake.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124175013.1473655-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-25 19:28:29 -08:00
Daniel Zahka
b11d358bf8 net/mlx5: implement swp_l4_csum_mode via devlink params
swp_l4_csum_mode controls how L4 transmit checksums are computed when
using Software Parser (SWP) hints for header locations.

Supported values:
  1. default: device will choose between full_csum or l4_only. Driver
     will discover the device's choice during initialization.
  2. full_csum: calculate L4 checksum with the pseudo-header.
  3. l4_only: calculate L4 checksum without the pseudo-header. Only
     available when swp_l4_csum_mode_l4_only is set in
     mlx5_ifc_nv_sw_offload_cap_bits.

Note that 'default' might be returned from the device and passed to
userspace, and it might also be set during a
devlink_param::reset_default() call, but attempts to set a value of
default directly with param-set will be rejected.

The l4_only setting is a dependency for PSP initialization in
mlx5e_psp_init().

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-5-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 19:01:22 -08:00
Daniel Zahka
2a367002ed devlink: support default values for param-get and param-set
Support querying and resetting to default param values.

Introduce two new devlink netlink attrs:
DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_VALUE_DEFAULT and
DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_RESET_DEFAULT. The former is used to contain an
optional parameter value inside of the param_value nested
attribute. The latter is used in param-set requests from userspace to
indicate that the driver should reset the param to its default value.

To implement this, two new functions are added to the devlink driver
api: devlink_param::get_default() and
devlink_param::reset_default(). These callbacks allow drivers to
implement default param actions for runtime and permanent cmodes. For
driverinit params, the core latches the last value set by a driver via
devl_param_driverinit_value_set(), and uses that as the default value
for a param.

Because default parameter values are optional, it would be impossible
to discern whether or not a param of type bool has default value of
false or not provided if the default value is encoded using a netlink
flag type. For this reason, when a DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_BOOL has an
associated default value, the default value is encoded using a u8
type.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 19:01:22 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
ecfea98b7d tcp: add net.ipv4.tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt
This is a follow up of commit aa251c8463 ("tcp: fix too slow
tcp_rcvbuf_grow() action") which brought again the issue that I tried
to fix in commit 65c5287892 ("tcp: fix sk_rcvbuf overshoot")

We also recently increased tcp_rmem[2] to 32 MB in commit 572be9bf9d
("tcp: increase tcp_rmem[2] to 32 MB")

Idea of this patch is to not let tcp_rcvbuf_grow() grow sk->sk_rcvbuf
too fast for small RTT flows. If sk->sk_rcvbuf is too big, this can
force NIC driver to not recycle pages from their page pool, and also
can cause cache evictions for DDIO enabled cpus/NIC, as receivers
are usually slower than senders.

Add net.ipv4.tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl, set by default to 1000 usec (1 ms)

If RTT if smaller than the sysctl value, use the RTT/tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt
ratio to control sk_rcvbuf inflation.

Tested:

Pair of hosts with a 200Gbit IDPF NIC. Using netperf/netserver

Client initiates 8 TCP bulk flows, asking netserver to use CPU #10 only.

super_netperf 8 -H server -T,10 -l 30

On server, use perf -e tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow while test is running.

Before:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt=1
perf record -a -e tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow sleep 30 ; perf script|tail -20|cut -c30-230
 1153.051201: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=398 rtt_us=382 copied=6905856 inq=180224 space=6115328 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=27666235 rcv_ssthresh=25878235 window_clamp=25937095 rcv_wnd=25600000 famil
 1153.138752: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=446 rtt_us=413 copied=5529600 inq=180224 space=4505600 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=23068672 rcv_ssthresh=21571860 window_clamp=21626880 rcv_wnd=21286912 famil
 1153.361484: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=415 rtt_us=380 copied=7061504 inq=204800 space=6725632 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=27666235 rcv_ssthresh=25878235 window_clamp=25937095 rcv_wnd=25600000 famil
 1153.457642: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=483 rtt_us=421 copied=5885952 inq=720896 space=4407296 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=23763511 rcv_ssthresh=22223271 window_clamp=22278291 rcv_wnd=21430272 famil
 1153.466002: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=308 rtt_us=281 copied=3244032 inq=180224 space=2883584 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=44854314 rcv_ssthresh=41992059 window_clamp=42050919 rcv_wnd=41713664 famil
 1153.747792: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=394 rtt_us=332 copied=4460544 inq=585728 space=3063808 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=44854314 rcv_ssthresh=41992059 window_clamp=42050919 rcv_wnd=41373696 famil
 1154.260747: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=652 rtt_us=226 copied=10977280 inq=737280 space=9486336 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=31165538 rcv_ssthresh=29197743 window_clamp=29217691 rcv_wnd=28368896 fami
 1154.375019: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=461 rtt_us=443 copied=7573504 inq=507904 space=6856704 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=27666235 rcv_ssthresh=25878235 window_clamp=25937095 rcv_wnd=25288704 famil
 1154.463072: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=494 rtt_us=408 copied=7983104 inq=200704 space=7065600 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=27666235 rcv_ssthresh=25878235 window_clamp=25937095 rcv_wnd=25579520 famil
 1154.474658: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=507 rtt_us=459 copied=5586944 inq=540672 space=4718592 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=17852266 rcv_ssthresh=16692999 window_clamp=16736499 rcv_wnd=16056320 famil
 1154.584657: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=494 rtt_us=427 copied=8126464 inq=204800 space=7782400 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=27666235 rcv_ssthresh=25878235 window_clamp=25937095 rcv_wnd=25600000 famil
 1154.702117: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=480 rtt_us=406 copied=5734400 inq=180224 space=5349376 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=23068672 rcv_ssthresh=21571860 window_clamp=21626880 rcv_wnd=21286912 famil
 1155.941595: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=717 rtt_us=670 copied=11042816 inq=3784704 space=7159808 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=19581357 rcv_ssthresh=18333222 window_clamp=18357522 rcv_wnd=14614528 fam
 1156.384735: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=529 rtt_us=473 copied=9011200 inq=180224 space=7258112 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=19581357 rcv_ssthresh=18333222 window_clamp=18357522 rcv_wnd=18018304 famil
 1157.821676: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=529 rtt_us=272 copied=8224768 inq=602112 space=6545408 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=67000000 rcv_ssthresh=62793576 window_clamp=62812500 rcv_wnd=62115840 famil
 1158.906379: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=710 rtt_us=445 copied=11845632 inq=540672 space=10240000 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=31165538 rcv_ssthresh=29205935 window_clamp=29217691 rcv_wnd=28536832 fam
 1164.600160: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=841 rtt_us=430 copied=12976128 inq=1290240 space=11304960 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=31165538 rcv_ssthresh=29212591 window_clamp=29217691 rcv_wnd=27856896 fa
 1165.163572: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=845 rtt_us=800 copied=12632064 inq=540672 space=7921664 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=27666235 rcv_ssthresh=25912795 window_clamp=25937095 rcv_wnd=25260032 fami
 1165.653464: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=388 rtt_us=309 copied=4493312 inq=180224 space=3874816 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=44854314 rcv_ssthresh=41995899 window_clamp=42050919 rcv_wnd=41713664 famil
 1166.651211: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=556 rtt_us=553 copied=6328320 inq=540672 space=5554176 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=23068672 rcv_ssthresh=21571860 window_clamp=21626880 rcv_wnd=20946944 famil

After:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt=1000
perf record -a -e tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow sleep 30 ; perf script|tail -20|cut -c30-230
 1457.053149: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=128 rtt_us=24 copied=1441792 inq=40960 space=1269760 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=2960741 rcv_ssthresh=2605474 window_clamp=2775694 rcv_wnd=2568192 family=AF_I
 1458.000778: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=128 rtt_us=31 copied=1441792 inq=24576 space=1400832 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=3060163 rcv_ssthresh=2810042 window_clamp=2868902 rcv_wnd=2674688 family=AF_I
 1458.088059: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=190 rtt_us=110 copied=3227648 inq=385024 space=2781184 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=6728240 rcv_ssthresh=6252705 window_clamp=6307725 rcv_wnd=5799936 family=AF
 1458.148549: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=232 rtt_us=129 copied=3956736 inq=237568 space=2842624 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=6731333 rcv_ssthresh=6252705 window_clamp=6310624 rcv_wnd=5918720 family=AF
 1458.466861: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=193 rtt_us=83 copied=2949120 inq=180224 space=2457600 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=5751438 rcv_ssthresh=5357689 window_clamp=5391973 rcv_wnd=5054464 family=AF_
 1458.775476: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=257 rtt_us=127 copied=4304896 inq=352256 space=3346432 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=8067131 rcv_ssthresh=7523275 window_clamp=7562935 rcv_wnd=7061504 family=AF
 1458.776631: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=200 rtt_us=96 copied=3260416 inq=143360 space=2768896 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=6397256 rcv_ssthresh=5938567 window_clamp=5997427 rcv_wnd=5828608 family=AF_
 1459.707973: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=215 rtt_us=96 copied=2506752 inq=163840 space=1388544 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=3068867 rcv_ssthresh=2768282 window_clamp=2877062 rcv_wnd=2555904 family=AF_
 1460.246494: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=231 rtt_us=80 copied=3756032 inq=204800 space=3117056 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=7288091 rcv_ssthresh=6773725 window_clamp=6832585 rcv_wnd=6471680 family=AF_
 1460.714596: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=270 rtt_us=110 copied=4714496 inq=311296 space=3719168 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=8957739 rcv_ssthresh=8339020 window_clamp=8397880 rcv_wnd=7933952 family=AF
 1462.029977: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=101 rtt_us=19 copied=1105920 inq=40960 space=1036288 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=2338970 rcv_ssthresh=2091684 window_clamp=2192784 rcv_wnd=1986560 family=AF_I
 1462.802385: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=89 rtt_us=45 copied=1069056 inq=0 space=1064960 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=2338970 rcv_ssthresh=2091684 window_clamp=2192784 rcv_wnd=2035712 family=AF_INET6
 1462.918648: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=105 rtt_us=33 copied=1441792 inq=180224 space=1069056 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=2383282 rcv_ssthresh=2091684 window_clamp=2234326 rcv_wnd=1896448 family=AF_
 1463.222533: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=273 rtt_us=144 copied=4603904 inq=385024 space=3469312 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=8422564 rcv_ssthresh=7891053 window_clamp=7896153 rcv_wnd=7409664 family=AF
 1466.519312: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=130 rtt_us=23 copied=1343488 inq=0 space=1261568 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=2780158 rcv_ssthresh=2493778 window_clamp=2606398 rcv_wnd=2494464 family=AF_INET6
 1466.681003: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=128 rtt_us=21 copied=1441792 inq=12288 space=1343488 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=2932027 rcv_ssthresh=2578555 window_clamp=2748775 rcv_wnd=2568192 family=AF_I
 1470.689959: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=255 rtt_us=122 copied=3932160 inq=204800 space=3551232 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=8182038 rcv_ssthresh=7647384 window_clamp=7670660 rcv_wnd=7442432 family=AF
 1471.754154: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=188 rtt_us=95 copied=2138112 inq=577536 space=1429504 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=3113650 rcv_ssthresh=2806426 window_clamp=2919046 rcv_wnd=2248704 family=AF_
 1476.813542: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=269 rtt_us=99 copied=3088384 inq=180224 space=2564096 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=6219470 rcv_ssthresh=5771893 window_clamp=5830753 rcv_wnd=5509120 family=AF_
 1477.738309: tcp:tcp_rcvbuf_grow: time=166 rtt_us=54 copied=1777664 inq=180224 space=1417216 ooo=0 scaling_ratio=240 rcvbuf=3117118 rcv_ssthresh=2874958 window_clamp=2922298 rcv_wnd=2613248 family=AF_

We can see sk_rcvbuf values are much smaller, and that rtt_us (estimation of rtt
from a receiver point of view) is kept small, instead of being bloated.

No difference in throughput.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Tested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119084813.3684576-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 17:44:23 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
6d5dea6824 tcp: tcp_moderate_rcvbuf is only used in rx path
sysctl_tcp_moderate_rcvbuf is only used from tcp_rcvbuf_grow().

Move it to netns_ipv4_read_rx group.

Remove various CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_SIZE() from netns_ipv4_struct_check(),
as they have no real benefit but cause pain for all changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119084813.3684576-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 17:44:23 -08:00
Jakub Kicinski
6785aa9d20 ipsec-next-2025-11-18
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Merge tag 'ipsec-next-2025-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next

Steffen Klassert says:

====================
pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2025-11-18

1) Relax a lock contention bottleneck to improve IPsec crypto
   offload performance. From Jianbo Liu.

2) Deprecate pfkey, the interface will be removed in 2027.

3) Update xfrm documentation and move it to ipsec maintainance.
   From Bagas Sanjaya.

* tag 'ipsec-next-2025-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next:
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for XFRM documentation
  net: Move XFRM documentation into its own subdirectory
  Documentation: xfrm_sync: Number the fifth section
  Documentation: xfrm_sysctl: Trim trailing colon in section heading
  Documentation: xfrm_sync: Trim excess section heading characters
  Documentation: xfrm_sync: Properly reindent list text
  Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists
  Documentation: xfrm_device: Use numbered list for offloading steps
  Documentation: xfrm_device: Wrap iproute2 snippets in literal code block
  pfkey: Deprecate pfkey
  xfrm: Skip redundant replay recheck for the hardware offload path
  xfrm: Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention with RSS
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118092610.2223552-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-18 17:55:41 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
ca412f25d6 tcp: reduce tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns default value to 10 usec
net.ipv4.tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns current default value is too high.

When a flow has many drops (1 % or more), and small RTT, adding 100 usec
before sending SACK stalls the sender relying on getting SACK
fast enough to keep the pipe busy.

Decrease the default to 10 usec.

This is orthogonal to Congestion Control heuristics to determine
if drops are caused by congestion or not.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114135141.3810964-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-17 17:02:43 -08:00
Bagas Sanjaya
03e23b18c7 net: Move XFRM documentation into its own subdirectory
XFRM docs are currently reside in Documentation/networking directory,
yet these are distinctive as a group of their own. Move them into xfrm
subdirectory.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:30:03 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
7276e7ae56 Documentation: xfrm_sync: Number the fifth section
Number the fifth section ("Exception to threshold settings") to be
consistent with the rest of sections.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:30:03 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
c08b786b82 Documentation: xfrm_sysctl: Trim trailing colon in section heading
The sole section heading ("/proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_* Variables") has
trailing colon. Trim it.

Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:29:36 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
01ad7831fb Documentation: xfrm_sync: Trim excess section heading characters
The first section "Message Structure" has excess underline, while the
second and third one ("TLVS reflect the different parameters" and
"Default configurations for the parameters") have trailing colon. Trim
them.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:28:11 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
a397b259c1 Documentation: xfrm_sync: Properly reindent list text
List texts are currently aligned at the start of column, rather than
after the list marker. Reindent them.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:28:10 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
840188d276 Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists
Sublists of hardware offload type lists are rendered in combined
paragraph due to lack of separator from their parent list. Add it.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:28:10 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
340e2a7386 Documentation: xfrm_device: Use numbered list for offloading steps
Format xfrm offloading steps as numbered list.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:28:09 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
68ec5df1d8 Documentation: xfrm_device: Wrap iproute2 snippets in literal code block
iproute2 snippets (ip x) are shown in long-running definition lists
instead. Format them as literal code blocks that do the semantic job
better.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12 08:28:09 +01:00
Saeed Mahameed
0e535824d0 devlink: Introduce switchdev_inactive eswitch mode
Adds DEVLINK_ESWITCH_MODE_SWITCHDEV_INACTIVE attribute to UAPI and
documentation.

Before having traffic flow through an eswitch, a user may want to have the
ability to block traffic towards the FDB until FDB is fully programmed and
the user is ready to send traffic to it. For example: when two eswitches
are present for vports in a multi-PF setup, one eswitch may take over the
traffic from the other when the user chooses.
Before this take over, a user may want to first program the inactive
eswitch and then once ready redirect traffic to this new eswitch.

switchdev modes transition semantics:

legacy->switchdev_inactive: Create switchdev mode normally, traffic not
  allowed to flow yet.

switchdev_inactive->switchdev: Enable traffic to flow.

switchdev->switchdev_inactive: Block traffic on the FDB, FDB and
  representros state and content is preserved.

When eswitch is configured to this mode, traffic is ignored/dropped on
this eswitch FDB, while current configuration is kept, e.g FDB rules and
netdev representros are kept available, FDB programming is allowed.

Example:
 # start inactive switchdev
devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.1 mode switchdev_inactive
 # setup TC rules, representors etc ..
 # activate
devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.1 mode switchdev

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251108070404.1551708-2-saeed@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-11-11 13:17:53 +01:00
Jakub Kicinski
a0c3aefb08 Merge branch '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue
Tony Nguyen says:

====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2025-11-06 (i40, ice, iavf)

Mohammad Heib introduces a new devlink parameter, max_mac_per_vf, for
controlling the maximum number of MAC address filters allowed by a VF. This
allows administrators to control the VF behavior in a more nuanced manner.

Aleksandr and Przemek add support for Receive Side Scaling of GTP to iAVF
for VFs running on E800 series ice hardware. This improves performance and
scalability for virtualized network functions in 5G and LTE deployments.

* '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue:
  iavf: add RSS support for GTP protocol via ethtool
  ice: Extend PTYPE bitmap coverage for GTP encapsulated flows
  ice: improve TCAM priority handling for RSS profiles
  ice: implement GTP RSS context tracking and configuration
  ice: add virtchnl definitions and static data for GTP RSS
  ice: add flow parsing for GTP and new protocol field support
  i40e: support generic devlink param "max_mac_per_vf"
  devlink: Add new "max_mac_per_vf" generic device param
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106225321.1609605-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-07 19:15:36 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
416dd649f3 tcp: add net.ipv4.tcp_comp_sack_rtt_percent
TCP SACK compression has been added in 2018 in commit
5d9f4262b7 ("tcp: add SACK compression").

It is working great for WAN flows (with large RTT).
Wifi in particular gets a significant boost _when_ ACK are suppressed.

Add a new sysctl so that we can tune the very conservative 5 % value
that has been used so far in this formula, so that small RTT flows
can benefit from this feature.

delay = min ( 5 % of RTT, 1 ms)

This patch adds new tcp_comp_sack_rtt_percent sysctl
to ease experiments and tuning.

Given that we cap the delay to 1ms (tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns sysctl),
set the default value to 33 %.

Quoting Neal Cardwell ( https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CADVnQymZ1tFnEA1Q=vtECs0=Db7zHQ8=+WCQtnhHFVbEOzjVnQ@mail.gmail.com/ )

The rationale for 33% is basically to try to facilitate pipelining,
where there are always at least 3 ACKs and 3 GSO/TSO skbs per SRTT, so
that the path can maintain a budget for 3 full-sized GSO/TSO skbs "in
flight" at all times:

+ 1 skb in the qdisc waiting to be sent by the NIC next
+ 1 skb being sent by the NIC (being serialized by the NIC out onto the wire)
+ 1 skb being received and aggregated by the receiver machine's
aggregation mechanism (some combination of LRO, GRO, and sack
compression)

Note that this is basically the same magic number (3) and the same
rationales as:

(a) tcp_tso_should_defer() ensuring that we defer sending data for no
longer than cwnd/tcp_tso_win_divisor (where tcp_tso_win_divisor = 3),
and
(b) bbr_quantization_budget() ensuring that cwnd is at least 3 GSO/TSO
skbs to maintain pipelining and full throughput at low RTTs

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106115236.3450026-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-07 18:41:44 -08:00
Mohammad Heib
2c031d4c77 i40e: support generic devlink param "max_mac_per_vf"
Currently the i40e driver enforces its own internally calculated per-VF MAC
filter limit, derived from the number of allocated VFs and available
hardware resources. This limit is not configurable by the administrator,
which makes it difficult to control how many MAC addresses each VF may
use.

This patch adds support for the new generic devlink runtime parameter
"max_mac_per_vf" which provides administrators with a way to cap the
number of MAC addresses a VF can use:

- When the parameter is set to 0 (default), the driver continues to use
  its internally calculated limit.

- When set to a non-zero value, the driver applies this value as a strict
  cap for VFs, overriding the internal calculation.

Important notes:

- The configured value is a theoretical maximum. Hardware limits may
  still prevent additional MAC addresses from being added, even if the
  parameter allows it.

- Since MAC filters are a shared hardware resource across all VFs,
  setting a high value may cause resource contention and starve other
  VFs.

- This change gives administrators predictable and flexible control over
  VF resource allocation, while still respecting hardware limitations.

- Previous discussion about this change:
  https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250805134042.2604897-2-dhill@redhat.com
  https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250823094952.182181-1-mheib@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
2025-11-06 12:57:31 -08:00
Mohammad Heib
9352d40c8b devlink: Add new "max_mac_per_vf" generic device param
Add a new device generic parameter to controls the maximum
number of MAC filters allowed per VF.

For example, to limit a VF to 3 MAC addresses:
 $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:3b:00.0 name max_mac_per_vf \
        value 3 \
        cmode runtime

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
2025-11-06 12:57:31 -08:00
Dong Yibo
ee61c10cd4 net: rnpgbe: Add build support for rnpgbe
Add build options and doc for mucse.
Initialize pci device access for MUCSE devices.

Signed-off-by: Dong Yibo <dong100@mucse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@ti.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101013849.120565-2-dong100@mucse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-04 18:11:36 -08:00
Oleksij Rempel
e6e93fb013 ethtool: netlink: add ETHTOOL_MSG_MSE_GET and wire up PHY MSE access
Introduce the userspace entry point for PHY MSE diagnostics via
ethtool netlink. This exposes the core API added previously and
returns both capability information and one or more snapshots.

Userspace sends ETHTOOL_MSG_MSE_GET. The reply carries:
- ETHTOOL_A_MSE_CAPABILITIES: scale limits and timing information
- ETHTOOL_A_MSE_CHANNEL_* nests: one or more snapshots (per-channel
  if available, otherwise WORST, otherwise LINK)

Link down returns -ENETDOWN.

Changes:
  - YAML: add attribute sets (mse, mse-capabilities, mse-snapshot)
    and the mse-get operation
  - UAPI (generated): add ETHTOOL_A_MSE_* enums and message IDs,
    ETHTOOL_MSG_MSE_GET/REPLY
  - ethtool core: add net/ethtool/mse.c implementing the request,
    register genl op, and hook into ethnl dispatch
  - docs: document MSE_GET in ethtool-netlink.rst

The include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h is generated
from Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027122801.982364-3-o.rempel@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 18:32:27 -08:00
Samiullah Khawaja
c18d4b190a net: Extend NAPI threaded polling to allow kthread based busy polling
Add a new state NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL to the NAPI state enum to
enable and disable threaded busy polling.

When threaded busy polling is enabled for a NAPI, enable
NAPI_STATE_THREADED also.

When the threaded NAPI is scheduled, set NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL to
signal napi_complete_done not to rearm interrupts.

Whenever NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL is unset, the
NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL will be unset, napi_complete_done unsets the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED bit also, which in turn will make the kthread
go to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca>
Tested-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028203007.575686-2-skhawaja@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 18:11:40 -08:00
Maxime Chevallier
209ff7af79 net: stmmac: rename devlink parameter ts_coarse into phc_coarse_adj
The devlink param "ts_coarse" doesn't indicate that we get coarse
timestamps, but rather that the PHC clock adjusments are coarse as the
frequency won't be continuously adjusted. Adjust the devlink parameter
name to reflect that.

The Coarse terminlogy comes from the dwmac register naming, update the
documentation to better explain what the parameter is about.

With this change, the parameter can now be adjusted using:
  devlink dev param set <dev> name phc_coarse_adj value true cmode runtime

Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030182454.182406-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 17:05:36 -08:00
Bagas Sanjaya
01cc760632 Documentation: ARCnet: Update obsolete contact info
ARCnet docs states that inquiries on the subsystem should be emailed to
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>, for whom has been in CREDITS
since the beginning of kernel git history and her email address is
unreachable (bounce). The subsystem is now maintained by Michael
Grzeschik since c38f6ac74c ("MAINTAINERS: add arcnet and take
maintainership").

In addition, there used to be a dedicated ARCnet mailing list but its
archive at epistolary.org has been shut down. ARCnet discussion nowadays
take place in netdev list. The arcnet.com domain mentioned has become
AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) related Typeform page and
ARCnet info now resides on arcnet.cc (ARCnet Resource Center) instead.

Update contact information.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028014451.10521-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-31 18:08:08 -07:00
Bagas Sanjaya
a7aca10c00 Documentation: netconsole: Separate literal code blocks for full and short netcat command name versions
Both full and short (abbreviated) command name versions of netcat
example are combined in single literal code block due to 'or::'
paragraph being indented one more space than the preceding paragraph
(before the short version example).

Unindent it to separate the versions.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030075013.40418-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-31 16:54:22 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski
1a2352ad82 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc4).

No conflicts, adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
  ded9813d17 ("net: stmmac: Consider Tx VLAN offload tag length for maxSDU")
  26ab9830be ("net: stmmac: replace has_xxxx with core_type")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-31 06:46:03 -07:00
Halil Pasic
8f736087e5 net/smc: handle -ENOMEM from smc_wr_alloc_link_mem gracefully
Currently if a -ENOMEM from smc_wr_alloc_link_mem() is handled by
giving up and going the way of a TCP fallback. This was reasonable
before the sizes of the allocations there were compile time constants
and reasonably small. But now those are actually configurable.

So instead of giving up, keep retrying with half of the requested size
unless we dip below the old static sizes -- then give up! In terms of
numbers that means we give up when it is certain that we at best would
end up allocating less than 16 send WR buffers or less than 48 recv WR
buffers. This is to avoid regressions due to having fewer buffers
compared the static values of the past.

Please note that SMC-R is supposed to be an optimisation over TCP, and
falling back to TCP is superior to establishing an SMC connection that
is going to perform worse. If the memory allocation fails (and we
propagate -ENOMEM), we fall back to TCP.

Preserve (modulo truncation) the ratio of send/recv WR buffer counts.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027224856.2970019-3-pasic@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-30 13:31:43 +01:00
Halil Pasic
aef3cdb47b net/smc: make wr buffer count configurable
Think SMC_WR_BUF_CNT_SEND := SMC_WR_BUF_CNT used in send context and
SMC_WR_BUF_CNT_RECV := 3 * SMC_WR_BUF_CNT used in recv context. Those
get replaced with lgr->max_send_wr and lgr->max_recv_wr respective.

Please note that although with the default sysctl values
qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr ==  qp_attr.cap.max_recv_wr is maintained but
can not be assumed to be generally true any more. I see no downside to
that, but my confidence level is rather modest.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027224856.2970019-2-pasic@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-30 13:31:43 +01:00
Ido Schimmel
d12d04d221 ipv6: icmp: Add RFC 5837 support
Add the ability to append the incoming IP interface information to
ICMPv6 error messages in accordance with RFC 5837 and RFC 4884. This is
required for more meaningful traceroute results in unnumbered networks.

The feature is disabled by default and controlled via a new sysctl
("net.ipv6.icmp.errors_extension_mask") which accepts a bitmask of ICMP
extensions to append to ICMP error messages. Currently, only a single
value is supported, but the interface and the implementation should be
able to support more extensions, if needed.

Clone the skb and copy the relevant data portions before modifying the
skb as the caller of icmp6_send() still owns the skb after the function
returns. This should be fine since by default ICMP error messages are
rate limited to 1000 per second and no more than 1 per second per
specific host.

Trim or pad the packet to 128 bytes before appending the ICMP extension
structure in order to be compatible with legacy applications that assume
that the ICMP extension structure always starts at this offset (the
minimum length specified by RFC 4884).

Since commit 20e1954fe2 ("ipv6: RFC 4884 partial support for SIT/GRE
tunnels") it is possible for icmp6_send() to be called with an skb that
already contains ICMP extensions. This can happen when we receive an
ICMPv4 message with extensions from a tunnel and translate it to an
ICMPv6 message towards an IPv6 host in the overlay network. I could not
find an RFC that supports this behavior, but it makes sense to not
overwrite the original extensions that were appended to the packet.
Therefore, avoid appending extensions if the length field in the
provided ICMPv6 header is already filled.

Export netdev_copy_name() using EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() to make it
available to IPv6 when it is built as a module.

Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027082232.232571-3-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 18:28:30 -07:00
Ido Schimmel
f0e7036fc9 ipv4: icmp: Add RFC 5837 support
Add the ability to append the incoming IP interface information to
ICMPv4 error messages in accordance with RFC 5837 and RFC 4884. This is
required for more meaningful traceroute results in unnumbered networks.

The feature is disabled by default and controlled via a new sysctl
("net.ipv4.icmp_errors_extension_mask") which accepts a bitmask of ICMP
extensions to append to ICMP error messages. Currently, only a single
value is supported, but the interface and the implementation should be
able to support more extensions, if needed.

Clone the skb and copy the relevant data portions before modifying the
skb as the caller of __icmp_send() still owns the skb after the function
returns. This should be fine since by default ICMP error messages are
rate limited to 1000 per second and no more than 1 per second per
specific host.

Trim or pad the packet to 128 bytes before appending the ICMP extension
structure in order to be compatible with legacy applications that assume
that the ICMP extension structure always starts at this offset (the
minimum length specified by RFC 4884).

Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027082232.232571-2-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 18:28:29 -07:00
Bagas Sanjaya
a433038098 Documentation: netconsole: Remove obsolete contact people
Breno Leitao has been listed in MAINTAINERS as netconsole maintainer
since 7c938e438c ("MAINTAINERS: make Breno the netconsole
maintainer"), but the documentation says otherwise that bug reports
should be sent to original netconsole authors.

Remove obsolate contact info.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028132027.48102-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 17:40:19 -07:00
Maxime Chevallier
6920fa0c76 net: stmmac: Add a devlink attribute to control timestamping mode
The DWMAC1000 supports 2 timestamping configurations to configure how
frequency adjustments are made to the ptp_clock, as well as the reported
timestamp values.

There was a previous attempt at upstreaming support for configuring this
mode by Olivier Dautricourt and Julien Beraud a few years back [1]

In a nutshell, the timestamping can be either set in fine mode or in
coarse mode.

In fine mode, which is the default, we use the overflow of an accumulator to
trigger frequency adjustments, but by doing so we lose precision on the
timetamps that are produced by the timestamping unit. The main drawback
is that the sub-second increment value, used to generate timestamps, can't be
set to lower than (2 / ptp_clock_freq).

The "fine" qualification comes from the frequent frequency adjustments we are
able to do, which is perfect for a PTP follower usecase.

In Coarse mode, we don't do frequency adjustments based on an
accumulator overflow. We can therefore have very fine subsecond
increment values, allowing for better timestamping precision. However
this mode works best when the ptp clock frequency is adjusted based on
an external signal, such as a PPS input produced by a GPS clock. This
mode is therefore perfect for a Grand-master usecase.

Introduce a driver-specific devlink parameter "ts_coarse" to enable or
disable coarse mode, keeping the "fine" mode as a default.

This can then be changed with:

  devlink dev param set <dev> name ts_coarse value true cmode runtime

The associated documentation is also added.

[1] : https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200514102808.31163-1-olivier.dautricourt@orolia.com/

Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024070720.71174-3-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-28 15:34:35 +01:00