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<title>net: pass queue rx page size from memory provider</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:17:25+00:00</updated>
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<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-01-06T13:25:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c0b709bf438ba9d197d369f55e4a97603fd4a705 ]

Allow memory providers to configure rx queues with a custom receive
page size. It's passed in struct pp_memory_provider_params, which is
copied into the queue, so it's preserved across queue restarts. Then,
it's propagated to the driver in a new queue config parameter.

Drivers should explicitly opt into using it by setting
QCFG_RX_PAGE_SIZE, in which case they should implement ndo_default_qcfg,
validate the size on queue restart and honour the current config in case
of a reset.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d1000fd7995e ("bnxt: fix memory leak in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc error cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c0b709bf438ba9d197d369f55e4a97603fd4a705 ]

Allow memory providers to configure rx queues with a custom receive
page size. It's passed in struct pp_memory_provider_params, which is
copied into the queue, so it's preserved across queue restarts. Then,
it's propagated to the driver in a new queue config parameter.

Drivers should explicitly opt into using it by setting
QCFG_RX_PAGE_SIZE, in which case they should implement ndo_default_qcfg,
validate the size on queue restart and honour the current config in case
of a reset.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d1000fd7995e ("bnxt: fix memory leak in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc error cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: add bare bone queue configs</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:17:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-01-06T13:25:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit efcb9a4d32d3d9b924642c086b868bfbb9a07c13 ]

We'll need to pass extra parameters when allocating a queue for memory
providers. Define a new structure for queue configurations, and pass it
to qapi callbacks. It's empty for now, actual parameters will be added
in following patches.

Configurations should persist across resets, and for that they're
default-initialised on device registration and stored in struct
netdev_rx_queue. We also add a new qapi callback for defaulting a given
config. It must be implemented if a driver wants to use queue configs
and is optional otherwise.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d1000fd7995e ("bnxt: fix memory leak in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc error cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit efcb9a4d32d3d9b924642c086b868bfbb9a07c13 ]

We'll need to pass extra parameters when allocating a queue for memory
providers. Define a new structure for queue configurations, and pass it
to qapi callbacks. It's empty for now, actual parameters will be added
in following patches.

Configurations should persist across resets, and for that they're
default-initialised on device registration and stored in struct
netdev_rx_queue. We also add a new qapi callback for defaulting a given
config. It must be implemented if a driver wants to use queue configs
and is optional otherwise.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d1000fd7995e ("bnxt: fix memory leak in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc error cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: reduce indent of struct netdev_queue_mgmt_ops members</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:17:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-21T22:28:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92d76cf96dcbc3c58daa84dbbf71a3ca8d9de53d ]

Trivial change, reduce the indent. I think the original is copied
from real NDOs. It's unnecessarily deep, makes passing struct args
problematic.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d1000fd7995e ("bnxt: fix memory leak in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc error cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 92d76cf96dcbc3c58daa84dbbf71a3ca8d9de53d ]

Trivial change, reduce the indent. I think the original is copied
from real NDOs. It's unnecessarily deep, makes passing struct args
problematic.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d1000fd7995e ("bnxt: fix memory leak in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc error cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add helper to pre-check if PP for an Rx queue will be unreadable</title>
<updated>2025-09-04T08:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-01T21:12:10+00:00</published>
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mlx5 pokes into the rxq state to check if the queue has a memory
provider, and therefore whether it may produce unreadable mem.
Add a helper for doing this in the page pool API. fbnic will want
a similar thing (tho, for a slightly different reason).

Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250901211214.1027927-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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mlx5 pokes into the rxq state to check if the queue has a memory
provider, and therefore whether it may produce unreadable mem.
Add a helper for doing this in the page pool API. fbnic will want
a similar thing (tho, for a slightly different reason).

Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250901211214.1027927-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>queue_api: add support for fetching per queue DMA dev</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T23:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dragos Tatulea</name>
<email>dtatulea@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-27T14:39:55+00:00</published>
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For zerocopy (io_uring, devmem), there is an assumption that the
parent device can do DMA. However that is not always the case:
- Scalable Function netdevs [1] have the DMA device in the grandparent.
- For Multi-PF netdevs [2] queues can be associated to different DMA
devices.

This patch introduces the a queue based interface for allowing drivers
to expose a different DMA device for zerocopy.

[1] Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/switchdev.rst
[2] Documentation/networking/multi-pf-netdev.rst

Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827144017.1529208-3-dtatulea@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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For zerocopy (io_uring, devmem), there is an assumption that the
parent device can do DMA. However that is not always the case:
- Scalable Function netdevs [1] have the DMA device in the grandparent.
- For Multi-PF netdevs [2] queues can be associated to different DMA
devices.

This patch introduces the a queue based interface for allowing drivers
to expose a different DMA device for zerocopy.

[1] Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/switchdev.rst
[2] Documentation/networking/multi-pf-netdev.rst

Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827144017.1529208-3-dtatulea@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>queue_api: add subqueue variant netif_subqueue_sent</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T22:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gur Stavi</name>
<email>gur.stavi@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-09T15:07:52+00:00</published>
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Add a new function, netif_subqueue_sent, which is a wrapper for
netdev_tx_sent_queue.

Drivers that use the subqueue variant macros, netif_subqueue_xxx,
identify queue by index and are not required to obtain
struct netdev_queue explicitly.

Such drivers still need to call netdev_tx_sent_queue which is a
counterpart of netif_subqueue_completed_wake. Allowing drivers to use a
subqueue variant for this purpose improves their code consistency by
always referring to queue by its index.

Signed-off-by: Gur Stavi &lt;gur.stavi@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/909a5c92db49cad39f0954d6cb86775e6480ef4c.1749038081.git.gur.stavi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a new function, netif_subqueue_sent, which is a wrapper for
netdev_tx_sent_queue.

Drivers that use the subqueue variant macros, netif_subqueue_xxx,
identify queue by index and are not required to obtain
struct netdev_queue explicitly.

Such drivers still need to call netdev_tx_sent_queue which is a
counterpart of netif_subqueue_completed_wake. Allowing drivers to use a
subqueue variant for this purpose improves their code consistency by
always referring to queue by its index.

Signed-off-by: Gur Stavi &lt;gur.stavi@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/909a5c92db49cad39f0954d6cb86775e6480ef4c.1749038081.git.gur.stavi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>queue_api: reduce risk of name collision over txq</title>
<updated>2025-05-20T03:09:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gur Stavi</name>
<email>gur.stavi@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-18T10:00:54+00:00</published>
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Rename local variable in macros from txq to _txq.
When macro parameter get_desc is expended it is likely to have a txq
token that refers to a different txq variable at the caller's site.

Signed-off-by: Gur Stavi &lt;gur.stavi@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/95b60d218f004308486d92ed17c8cc6f28bac09d.1747559621.git.gur.stavi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename local variable in macros from txq to _txq.
When macro parameter get_desc is expended it is likely to have a txq
token that refers to a different txq variable at the caller's site.

Signed-off-by: Gur Stavi &lt;gur.stavi@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/95b60d218f004308486d92ed17c8cc6f28bac09d.1747559621.git.gur.stavi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2025-05-08T15:59:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T15:56:12+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.15-rc6).

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:

net/core/dev.c:
  08e9f2d584c4 ("net: Lock netdevices during dev_shutdown")
  a82dc19db136 ("net: avoid potential race between netdev_get_by_index_lock() and netns switch")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.15-rc6).

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:

net/core/dev.c:
  08e9f2d584c4 ("net: Lock netdevices during dev_shutdown")
  a82dc19db136 ("net: avoid potential race between netdev_get_by_index_lock() and netns switch")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: export a helper for adding up queue stats</title>
<updated>2025-05-08T09:56:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T00:32:20+00:00</published>
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Older drivers and drivers with lower queue counts often have a static
array of queues, rather than allocating structs for each queue on demand.
Add a helper for adding up qstats from a queue range. Expectation is
that driver will pass a queue range [netdev-&gt;real_num_*x_queues, MAX).
It was tempting to always use num_*x_queues as the end, but virtio
seems to clamp its queue count after allocating the netdev. And this
way we can trivaly reuse the helper for [0, real_..).

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250507003221.823267-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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Older drivers and drivers with lower queue counts often have a static
array of queues, rather than allocating structs for each queue on demand.
Add a helper for adding up qstats from a queue range. Expectation is
that driver will pass a queue range [netdev-&gt;real_num_*x_queues, MAX).
It was tempting to always use num_*x_queues as the end, but virtio
seems to clamp its queue count after allocating the netdev. And this
way we can trivaly reuse the helper for [0, real_..).

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250507003221.823267-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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<title>netdev: depend on netdev-&gt;lock for qstats in ops locked drivers</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T00:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-08T19:59:55+00:00</published>
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We mostly needed rtnl_lock in qstat to make sure the queue count
is stable while we work. For "ops locked" drivers the instance
lock protects the queue count, so we don't have to take rtnl_lock.

For currently ops-locked drivers: netdevsim and bnxt need
the protection from netdev going down while we dump, which
instance lock provides. gve doesn't care.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408195956.412733-9-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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We mostly needed rtnl_lock in qstat to make sure the queue count
is stable while we work. For "ops locked" drivers the instance
lock protects the queue count, so we don't have to take rtnl_lock.

For currently ops-locked drivers: netdevsim and bnxt need
the protection from netdev going down while we dump, which
instance lock provides. gve doesn't care.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408195956.412733-9-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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