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<title>linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v5.18-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: move net_unlink_todo() out of the header</title>
<updated>2022-03-28T21:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-25T21:50:23+00:00</published>
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There's no reason for this to be in netdevice.h, it's all
just used in dev.c. Also make it no longer inline and let
the compiler decide to do that by itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220325225023.f49b9056fe1c.I6b901a2df00000837a9bd251a8dd259bd23f5ded@changeid
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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There's no reason for this to be in netdevice.h, it's all
just used in dev.c. Also make it no longer inline and let
the compiler decide to do that by itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220325225023.f49b9056fe1c.I6b901a2df00000837a9bd251a8dd259bd23f5ded@changeid
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevice: add missing dm_private kdoc</title>
<updated>2022-03-22T12:01:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T05:10:53+00:00</published>
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Building htmldocs complains:
  include/linux/netdevice.h:2295: warning: Function parameter or member 'dm_private' not described in 'net_device'

Fixes: b26ef81c46ed ("drop_monitor: remove quadratic behavior")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322051053.1883186-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Building htmldocs complains:
  include/linux/netdevice.h:2295: warning: Function parameter or member 'dm_private' not described in 'net_device'

Fixes: b26ef81c46ed ("drop_monitor: remove quadratic behavior")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322051053.1883186-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: set default rss queues num to physical cores / 2</title>
<updated>2022-03-18T19:00:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Íñigo Huguet</name>
<email>ihuguet@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-15T09:18:32+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Network drivers can call to netif_get_num_default_rss_queues to get the
default number of receive queues to use. Right now, this default number
is min(8, num_online_cpus()).

Instead, as suggested by Jakub, use the number of physical cores divided
by 2 as a way to avoid wasting CPU resources and to avoid using both CPU
threads, but still allowing to scale for high-end processors with many
cores.

As an exception, select 2 queues for processors with 2 cores, because
otherwise it won't take any advantage of RSS despite being SMP capable.

Tested: Processor Intel Xeon E5-2620 (2 sockets, 6 cores/socket, 2
threads/core). NIC Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 (10GBps). Ran some
tests with `perf stat iperf3 -R`, with parallelisms of 1, 8 and 24,
getting the following results:
- Number of queues: 6 (instead of 8)
- Network throughput: not affected
- CPU usage: utilized 0.05-0.12 CPUs more than before (having 24 CPUs
  this is only 0.2-0.5% higher)
- Reduced the number of context switches by 7-50%, being more noticeable
  when using a higher number of parallel threads.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet &lt;ihuguet@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220315091832.13873-1-ihuguet@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Network drivers can call to netif_get_num_default_rss_queues to get the
default number of receive queues to use. Right now, this default number
is min(8, num_online_cpus()).

Instead, as suggested by Jakub, use the number of physical cores divided
by 2 as a way to avoid wasting CPU resources and to avoid using both CPU
threads, but still allowing to scale for high-end processors with many
cores.

As an exception, select 2 queues for processors with 2 cores, because
otherwise it won't take any advantage of RSS despite being SMP capable.

Tested: Processor Intel Xeon E5-2620 (2 sockets, 6 cores/socket, 2
threads/core). NIC Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 (10GBps). Ran some
tests with `perf stat iperf3 -R`, with parallelisms of 1, 8 and 24,
getting the following results:
- Number of queues: 6 (instead of 8)
- Network throughput: not affected
- CPU usage: utilized 0.05-0.12 CPUs more than before (having 24 CPUs
  this is only 0.2-0.5% higher)
- Reduced the number of context switches by 7-50%, being more noticeable
  when using a higher number of parallel threads.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet &lt;ihuguet@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220315091832.13873-1-ihuguet@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: disable preemption in dev_core_stats_XXX_inc() helpers</title>
<updated>2022-03-14T17:15:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-12T21:45:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
syzbot was kind enough to remind us that dev-&gt;{tx_dropped|rx_dropped}
could be increased in process context.

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: syz-executor413/3593
caller is netdev_core_stats_alloc+0x98/0x110 net/core/dev.c:10298
CPU: 1 PID: 3593 Comm: syz-executor413 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc7-syzkaller-02426-g97aeb877de7f #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 check_preemption_disabled+0x16b/0x170 lib/smp_processor_id.c:49
 netdev_core_stats_alloc+0x98/0x110 net/core/dev.c:10298
 dev_core_stats include/linux/netdevice.h:3855 [inline]
 dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc include/linux/netdevice.h:3866 [inline]
 tun_get_user+0x3455/0x3ab0 drivers/net/tun.c:1800
 tun_chr_write_iter+0xe1/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2015
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2074 [inline]
 new_sync_write+0x431/0x660 fs/read_write.c:503
 vfs_write+0x7cd/0xae0 fs/read_write.c:590
 ksys_write+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:643
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f2cf4f887e3
Code: 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e e9 9b fd ff ff 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 55 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18
RSP: 002b:00007ffd50dd5fd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd50dd6000 RCX: 00007f2cf4f887e3
RDX: 000000000000002a RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffd50dd5ff0 R14: 00007ffd50dd5fe8 R15: 00007ffd50dd5fe4
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

Fixes: 625788b58445 ("net: add per-cpu storage and net-&gt;core_stats")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: jeffreyji &lt;jeffreyji@google.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Vazquez &lt;brianvv@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220312214505.3294762-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
syzbot was kind enough to remind us that dev-&gt;{tx_dropped|rx_dropped}
could be increased in process context.

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: syz-executor413/3593
caller is netdev_core_stats_alloc+0x98/0x110 net/core/dev.c:10298
CPU: 1 PID: 3593 Comm: syz-executor413 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc7-syzkaller-02426-g97aeb877de7f #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 check_preemption_disabled+0x16b/0x170 lib/smp_processor_id.c:49
 netdev_core_stats_alloc+0x98/0x110 net/core/dev.c:10298
 dev_core_stats include/linux/netdevice.h:3855 [inline]
 dev_core_stats_rx_dropped_inc include/linux/netdevice.h:3866 [inline]
 tun_get_user+0x3455/0x3ab0 drivers/net/tun.c:1800
 tun_chr_write_iter+0xe1/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2015
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2074 [inline]
 new_sync_write+0x431/0x660 fs/read_write.c:503
 vfs_write+0x7cd/0xae0 fs/read_write.c:590
 ksys_write+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:643
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f2cf4f887e3
Code: 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e e9 9b fd ff ff 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 55 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18
RSP: 002b:00007ffd50dd5fd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd50dd6000 RCX: 00007f2cf4f887e3
RDX: 000000000000002a RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffd50dd5ff0 R14: 00007ffd50dd5fe8 R15: 00007ffd50dd5fe4
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

Fixes: 625788b58445 ("net: add per-cpu storage and net-&gt;core_stats")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: jeffreyji &lt;jeffreyji@google.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Vazquez &lt;brianvv@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220312214505.3294762-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add per-cpu storage and net-&gt;core_stats</title>
<updated>2022-03-12T07:17:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-11T05:14:20+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Before adding yet another possibly contended atomic_long_t,
it is time to add per-cpu storage for existing ones:
 dev-&gt;tx_dropped, dev-&gt;rx_dropped, and dev-&gt;rx_nohandler

Because many devices do not have to increment such counters,
allocate the per-cpu storage on demand, so that dev_get_stats()
does not have to spend considerable time folding zero counters.

Note that some drivers have abused these counters which
were supposed to be only used by core networking stack.

v4: should use per_cpu_ptr() in dev_get_stats() (Jakub)
v3: added a READ_ONCE() in netdev_core_stats_alloc() (Paolo)
v2: add a missing include (reported by kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;)
    Change in netdev_core_stats_alloc() (Jakub)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: jeffreyji &lt;jeffreyji@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Vazquez &lt;brianvv@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220311051420.2608812-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Before adding yet another possibly contended atomic_long_t,
it is time to add per-cpu storage for existing ones:
 dev-&gt;tx_dropped, dev-&gt;rx_dropped, and dev-&gt;rx_nohandler

Because many devices do not have to increment such counters,
allocate the per-cpu storage on demand, so that dev_get_stats()
does not have to spend considerable time folding zero counters.

Note that some drivers have abused these counters which
were supposed to be only used by core networking stack.

v4: should use per_cpu_ptr() in dev_get_stats() (Jakub)
v3: added a READ_ONCE() in netdev_core_stats_alloc() (Paolo)
v2: add a missing include (reported by kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;)
    Change in netdev_core_stats_alloc() (Jakub)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: jeffreyji &lt;jeffreyji@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Vazquez &lt;brianvv@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220311051420.2608812-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-03-11T01:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-11T01:16:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1e8a3f0d2a1ef544611a7ea4a7c1512c732e0e43'/>
<id>1e8a3f0d2a1ef544611a7ea4a7c1512c732e0e43</id>
<content type='text'>
net/dsa/dsa2.c
  commit afb3cc1a397d ("net: dsa: unlock the rtnl_mutex when dsa_master_setup() fails")
  commit e83d56537859 ("net: dsa: replay master state events in dsa_tree_{setup,teardown}_master")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220307101436.7ae87da0@canb.auug.org.au/

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
  commit 97b0129146b1 ("ice: Fix error with handling of bonding MTU")
  commit 43113ff73453 ("ice: add TTY for GNSS module for E810T device")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220310112843.3233bcf1@canb.auug.org.au/

drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c
  commit fc7f750dc9d1 ("staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()")
  commit 4bcc4249b4cf ("staging: Use netif_rx().")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220308111043.1018a59d@canb.auug.org.au/

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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net/dsa/dsa2.c
  commit afb3cc1a397d ("net: dsa: unlock the rtnl_mutex when dsa_master_setup() fails")
  commit e83d56537859 ("net: dsa: replay master state events in dsa_tree_{setup,teardown}_master")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220307101436.7ae87da0@canb.auug.org.au/

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
  commit 97b0129146b1 ("ice: Fix error with handling of bonding MTU")
  commit 43113ff73453 ("ice: add TTY for GNSS module for E810T device")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220310112843.3233bcf1@canb.auug.org.au/

drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c
  commit fc7f750dc9d1 ("staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()")
  commit 4bcc4249b4cf ("staging: Use netif_rx().")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220308111043.1018a59d@canb.auug.org.au/

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix esp GSO on inter address family tunnels.</title>
<updated>2022-03-07T12:14:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steffen Klassert</name>
<email>steffen.klassert@secunet.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-07T12:11:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=23c7f8d7989e1646aac82f75761b7648c355cb8a'/>
<id>23c7f8d7989e1646aac82f75761b7648c355cb8a</id>
<content type='text'>
The esp tunnel GSO handlers use skb_mac_gso_segment to
push the inner packet to the segmentation handlers.
However, skb_mac_gso_segment takes the Ethernet Protocol
ID from 'skb-&gt;protocol' which is wrong for inter address
family tunnels. We fix this by introducing a new
skb_eth_gso_segment function.

This function can be used if it is necessary to pass the
Ethernet Protocol ID directly to the segmentation handler.
First users of this function will be the esp4 and esp6
tunnel segmentation handlers.

Fixes: c35fe4106b92 ("xfrm: Add mode handlers for IPsec on layer 2")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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<pre>
The esp tunnel GSO handlers use skb_mac_gso_segment to
push the inner packet to the segmentation handlers.
However, skb_mac_gso_segment takes the Ethernet Protocol
ID from 'skb-&gt;protocol' which is wrong for inter address
family tunnels. We fix this by introducing a new
skb_eth_gso_segment function.

This function can be used if it is necessary to pass the
Ethernet Protocol ID directly to the segmentation handler.
First users of this function will be the esp4 and esp6
tunnel segmentation handlers.

Fixes: c35fe4106b92 ("xfrm: Add mode handlers for IPsec on layer 2")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Remove netif_rx_any_context() and netif_rx_ni().</title>
<updated>2022-03-07T11:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-06T21:57:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2655926aea9beea62c9ba80c032485456fd848f0'/>
<id>2655926aea9beea62c9ba80c032485456fd848f0</id>
<content type='text'>
Remove netif_rx_any_context and netif_rx_ni() because there are no more
users in tree.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Remove netif_rx_any_context and netif_rx_ni() because there are no more
users in tree.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dev: Add hardware stats support</title>
<updated>2022-03-03T10:37:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-02T16:31:20+00:00</published>
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Offloading switch device drivers may be able to collect statistics of the
traffic taking place in the HW datapath that pertains to a certain soft
netdevice, such as VLAN. Add the necessary infrastructure to allow exposing
these statistics to the offloaded netdevice in question. The API was shaped
by the following considerations:

- Collection of HW statistics is not free: there may be a finite number of
  counters, and the act of counting may have a performance impact. It is
  therefore necessary to allow toggling whether HW counting should be done
  for any particular SW netdevice.

- As the drivers are loaded and removed, a particular device may get
  offloaded and unoffloaded again. At the same time, the statistics values
  need to stay monotonic (modulo the eventual 64-bit wraparound),
  increasing only to reflect traffic measured in the device.

  To that end, the netdevice keeps around a lazily-allocated copy of struct
  rtnl_link_stats64. Device drivers then contribute to the values kept
  therein at various points. Even as the driver goes away, the struct stays
  around to maintain the statistics values.

- Different HW devices may be able to count different things. The
  motivation behind this patch in particular is exposure of HW counters on
  Nvidia Spectrum switches, where the only practical approach to counting
  traffic on offloaded soft netdevices currently is to use router interface
  counters, and count L3 traffic. Correspondingly that is the statistics
  suite added in this patch.

  Other devices may be able to measure different kinds of traffic, and for
  that reason, the APIs are built to allow uniform access to different
  statistics suites.

- Because soft netdevices and offloading drivers are only loosely bound, a
  netdevice uses a notifier chain to communicate with the drivers. Several
  new notifiers, NETDEV_OFFLOAD_XSTATS_*, have been added to carry messages
  to the offloading drivers.

- Devices can have various conditions for when a particular counter is
  available. As the device is configured and reconfigured, the device
  offload may become or cease being suitable for counter binding. A
  netdevice can use a notifier type NETDEV_OFFLOAD_XSTATS_REPORT_USED to
  ping offloading drivers and determine whether anyone currently implements
  a given statistics suite. This information can then be propagated to user
  space.

  When the driver decides to unoffload a netdevice, it can use a
  newly-added function, netdev_offload_xstats_report_delta(), to record
  outstanding collected statistics, before destroying the HW counter.

This patch adds a helper, call_netdevice_notifiers_info_robust(), for
dispatching a notifier with the possibility of unwind when one of the
consumers bails. Given the wish to eventually get rid of the global
notifier block altogether, this helper only invokes the per-netns notifier
block.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Offloading switch device drivers may be able to collect statistics of the
traffic taking place in the HW datapath that pertains to a certain soft
netdevice, such as VLAN. Add the necessary infrastructure to allow exposing
these statistics to the offloaded netdevice in question. The API was shaped
by the following considerations:

- Collection of HW statistics is not free: there may be a finite number of
  counters, and the act of counting may have a performance impact. It is
  therefore necessary to allow toggling whether HW counting should be done
  for any particular SW netdevice.

- As the drivers are loaded and removed, a particular device may get
  offloaded and unoffloaded again. At the same time, the statistics values
  need to stay monotonic (modulo the eventual 64-bit wraparound),
  increasing only to reflect traffic measured in the device.

  To that end, the netdevice keeps around a lazily-allocated copy of struct
  rtnl_link_stats64. Device drivers then contribute to the values kept
  therein at various points. Even as the driver goes away, the struct stays
  around to maintain the statistics values.

- Different HW devices may be able to count different things. The
  motivation behind this patch in particular is exposure of HW counters on
  Nvidia Spectrum switches, where the only practical approach to counting
  traffic on offloaded soft netdevices currently is to use router interface
  counters, and count L3 traffic. Correspondingly that is the statistics
  suite added in this patch.

  Other devices may be able to measure different kinds of traffic, and for
  that reason, the APIs are built to allow uniform access to different
  statistics suites.

- Because soft netdevices and offloading drivers are only loosely bound, a
  netdevice uses a notifier chain to communicate with the drivers. Several
  new notifiers, NETDEV_OFFLOAD_XSTATS_*, have been added to carry messages
  to the offloading drivers.

- Devices can have various conditions for when a particular counter is
  available. As the device is configured and reconfigured, the device
  offload may become or cease being suitable for counter binding. A
  netdevice can use a notifier type NETDEV_OFFLOAD_XSTATS_REPORT_USED to
  ping offloading drivers and determine whether anyone currently implements
  a given statistics suite. This information can then be propagated to user
  space.

  When the driver decides to unoffload a netdevice, it can use a
  newly-added function, netdev_offload_xstats_report_delta(), to record
  outstanding collected statistics, before destroying the HW counter.

This patch adds a helper, call_netdevice_notifiers_info_robust(), for
dispatching a notifier with the possibility of unwind when one of the
consumers bails. Given the wish to eventually get rid of the global
notifier block altogether, this helper only invokes the per-netns notifier
block.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>drop_monitor: remove quadratic behavior</title>
<updated>2022-02-23T12:39:58+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-02-22T22:04:50+00:00</published>
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drop_monitor is using an unique list on which all netdevices in
the host have an element, regardless of their netns.

This scales poorly, not only at device unregister time (what I
caught during my netns dismantle stress tests), but also at packet
processing time whenever trace_napi_poll_hit() is called.

If the intent was to avoid adding one pointer in 'struct net_device'
then surely we prefer O(1) behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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drop_monitor is using an unique list on which all netdevices in
the host have an element, regardless of their netns.

This scales poorly, not only at device unregister time (what I
caught during my netns dismantle stress tests), but also at packet
processing time whenever trace_napi_poll_hit() is called.

If the intent was to avoid adding one pointer in 'struct net_device'
then surely we prefer O(1) behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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