netpoll tries to refill the skb queue on every packet send, independently
if packets are being consumed from the pool or not. This was
particularly problematic while being called from printk(), where the
operation would be done while holding the console lock.
Introduce a more intelligent approach to skb queue management. Instead
of constantly attempting to refill the queue, the system now defers
refilling to a work queue and only triggers the workqueue when a buffer
is actually dequeued. This change significantly reduces operations with
the lock held.
Add a work_struct to the netpoll structure for asynchronous refilling,
updating find_skb() to schedule refill work only when necessary (skb is
dequeued).
These changes have demonstrated a 15% reduction in time spent during
netpoll_send_msg operations, especially when no SKBs are not consumed
from consumed from pool.
When SKBs are being dequeued, the improvement is even better, around
70%, mainly because refilling the SKB pool is now happening outside of
the critical patch (with console_owner lock held).
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250304-netpoll_refill_v2-v1-1-06e2916a4642@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Commit fb3dda82fd ("net: airoha: Move airoha_eth driver in a dedicated
folder") moves the driver to drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/, but misses to
adjust the AIROHA ETHERNET DRIVER section in MAINTAINERS. Hence,
./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns complains about a broken
reference.
Adjust the file entry to the dedicated folder for this driver.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306094636.63709-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Matthieu Baerts says:
====================
tcp: ulp: diag: expose more to non net admin users
Since its introduction in commit 61723b3932 ("tcp: ulp: add functions
to dump ulp-specific information"), the ULP diag info have been exported
only to users with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Not everything is sensitive, and some info can be exported to all users
in order to ease the debugging from the userspace side without requiring
additional capabilities.
First, the ULP name can be easily exported. Then more depending on each
layer:
- On kTLS side, it looks like everything can be exported to all users:
version, cipher type, tx/rx user config type, plus some flags.
- On MPTCP side, everything but the sequence numbers are exported to
all non net admin users, similar to TCP.
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306-net-next-tcp-ulp-diag-net-admin-v1-0-06afdd860fc9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
When introduced in commit 61723b3932 ("tcp: ulp: add functions to dump
ulp-specific information"), the whole ULP diag info has been exported
only if the requester had CAP_NET_ADMIN.
It looks like not everything is sensitive, and some info can be exported
to all users in order to ease the debugging from the userspace side
without requiring additional capabilities. Each layer should then decide
what can be exposed to everybody. The 'net_admin' boolean is then passed
to the different layers.
On kTLS side, it looks like there is nothing sensitive there: version,
cipher type, tx/rx user config type, plus some flags. So, only some
metadata about the configuration, no cryptographic info like keys, etc.
Then, everything can be exported to all users.
On MPTCP side, that's different. The MPTCP-related sequence numbers per
subflow should certainly not be exposed to everybody. For example, the
DSS mapping and ssn_offset would give all users on the system access to
narrow ranges of values for the subflow TCP sequence numbers and
MPTCP-level DSNs, and then ease packet injection. The TCP diag interface
doesn't expose the TCP sequence numbers for TCP sockets, so best to do
the same here. The rest -- token, IDs, flags -- can be exported to
everybody.
Acked-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306-net-next-tcp-ulp-diag-net-admin-v1-2-06afdd860fc9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Support ethtool -g / -G. Leverage the code added for -l / -L
to alloc / stop / start / free.
Check parameters against HW min/max but also our own min/max.
Min HW queue is 16 entries, we can't deal with TWQs that small
because of the queue waking logic. Add similar contraint on RCQ
for symmetry.
We need 3 sizes on Rx, as the NIC does header-data split two separate
buffer pools:
(1) head page ring - how many empty pages we post for headers
(2) payload page ring - how many empty pages we post for payloads
(3) completion ring - where NIC produces the Rx descriptors
Acked-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306145150.1757263-4-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Doug Berger says:
====================
net: bcmgenet: revise suspend/resume
This commit set updates the GENET driver to reduce the delay to
resume the ethernet link when the Wake on Lan features are used.
In addition, the encoding of hardware versioning and features is
revised to avoid some redundancy and improve readability as well
as remove a warning that occurred for the BCM7712 device which
updated the device major version while maintaining compatibility
with the driver.
The assignment of hardware descriptor rings was modified to
simplify programming and to allow support for the hardware
RX_CLS_FLOW_DISC filter action.
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306192643.2383632-1-opendmb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
If the network interface is configured for Wake-on-LAN we should
avoid bringing the interface down and up since it slows the time
to reestablish network traffic on resume.
Redundant calls to phy_suspend() and phy_resume() are removed
since they are already invoked from within phy_stop() and
phy_start() called from bcmgenet_netif_stop() and
bcmgenet_netif_start().
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306192643.2383632-15-opendmb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The bcmgenet_power_up() function is moved from the resume method
to the resume_noirq method for symmetry with the suspend_noirq
method. This allows the wol_active flag to be removed.
The UMAC_IRQ_WAKE_EVENT interrupts that can be unmasked by the
bcmgenet_wol_power_down_cfg() function are now re-masked by the
bcmgenet_wol_power_up_cfg() function at the resume_noirq level
as well.
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306192643.2383632-13-opendmb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The functions bcmgenet_dma_disable and bcmgenet_enable_dma are
only used as part of dma initialization. Their functionality is
moved inside bcmgenet_init_dma and the functions are removed.
Since the dma is always disabled inside of bcmgenet_init_dma,
the initialization functions bcmgenet_init_rx_queues and
bcmgenet_init_tx_queues no longer need to attempt to manage its
state.
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306192643.2383632-10-opendmb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The default transmit and receive packet handling is moved from
the DESC_INDEX (i.e. 16) descriptor rings to the Ring 0 queues.
This saves a fair amount of special case code by unifying the
handling.
A default dummy filter is enabled in the Hardware Filter Block
to route default receive packets to Ring 0.
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306192643.2383632-7-opendmb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To add netmem support to the gve driver, add a union
to the struct gve_rx_slot_page_info. netmem_ref is used for
DQO queue format's raw DMA addressing(RDA) mode. The struct
page is retained for other usecases.
Then, switch to using relevant netmem helper functions for
page pool and skb frag management.
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307003905.601175-1-hramamurthy@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Martin KaFai Lau says:
====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2025-03-06
We've added 6 non-merge commits during the last 13 day(s) which contain
a total of 6 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) Add XDP metadata support for tun driver, from Marcus Wichelmann.
* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
selftests/bpf: Fix file descriptor assertion in open_tuntap helper
selftests/bpf: Add test for XDP metadata support in tun driver
selftests/bpf: Refactor xdp_context_functional test and bpf program
selftests/bpf: Move open_tuntap to network helpers
net: tun: Enable transfer of XDP metadata to skb
net: tun: Enable XDP metadata support
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307055335.441298-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tariq Toukan says:
====================
mlx5 misc enhancements 2025-03-04
This series introduces enhancements to the mlx5 core and Eth drivers.
Patches 1-3 by Shahar introduce support for configuring lanes alongside
speed when autonegotiation is disabled. The combination of speed and the
number of lanes corresponds to a specific link mode (in the extended
mask typically used in newer hardware), allowing the user to select a
precise link mode when autonegotiation is off, instead of just choosing
the speed.
Patch 4 by Amir extends the multi-port LAG support.
Patches 5-6 by Leon enhance IPsec matching logic.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20250226114752.104838-1-tariqt@nvidia.com
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250304160620.417580-1-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Existing match criteria didn't allow to match whole subnet and
only by specific addresses only. This caused to tunnel mode do not
forward such traffic through relevant SA.
In tunnel mode, policies look like this:
src 192.169.0.0/16 dst 192.169.0.0/16
dir out priority 383615 ptype main
tmpl src 192.169.101.2 dst 192.169.101.1
proto esp spi 0xc5141c18 reqid 1 mode tunnel
crypto offload parameters: dev eth2 mode packet
In this case, the XFRM core code handled all subnet calculations and
forwarded network address to the drivers e.g. 192.169.0.0.
For mlx5 devices, there is a need to set relevant prefix e.g. 0xFFFF00
to perform flow steering match operation.
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250304160620.417580-7-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Currently, when auto-negotiation is disabled, the driver retrieves
the speed and converts it into all link modes that correspond to
that speed. With this patch, we add the ability to set the number
of lanes, so that the combination of speed and lanes corresponds to
exactly one specific link mode for the extended bit map.
For the legacy bit map the driver sets all link modes correspond to
speed and lanes.
This change provides users with the option to set a specific link
mode, rather than enabling all link modes associated with a given
speed when auto-negotiation is off.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250304160620.417580-4-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Introduce struct mlx5_link_info with a speed field and change the
types of mlx5e_link_speed and mlx5e_ext_link_speed from arrays of
u32 to arrays of struct mlx5_link_info. These arrays are renamed
to mlx5e_link_info and mlx5e_ext_link_info, respectively.
This change prepares for a future patch that will introduce a lanes
field in struct mlx5_link_info and add lanes mapping alongside the
speed for each link mode in the two arrays.
Additionally, rename function mlx5_port_speed2linkmodes() to
mlx5_port_info2linkmodes() and function mlx5_port_ptys2speed()
to mlx5_port_ptys2info() and update the speed parameter/return
type to struct mlx5_link_info, in preparation for the upcoming
patch where these functions will also utilize the lanes field.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250304160620.417580-3-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The port header is a general file under include, yet it
contains declarations for functions that are either not
exported or exported but not used outside the mlx5_core
driver.
To enhance code organization, we move these declarations
to mlx5_core.h, where they are more appropriately scoped.
This refactor removes unnecessary exported symbols and
prevents unexported functions from being inadvertently
referenced outside of the mlx5_core driver.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250304160620.417580-2-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
