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There has been apparently a single message only ever publicly posted by
David Ruggiero, back in 2002, which added this documentation piece among
others, and MAINTAINERS was never updated accordingly. It is therefore
doubtful that his maintainer status has actually come into effect. Just
replace the reference then so as not to confuse people.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/alpine.DEB.2.21.2605201207380.1450@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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This reverts commit 91f3a27ae9f66d81a5906461762c37c8a2bcab06.
Contrary to the assumption stated with the original commit description
this driver is in use and I'm going to maintain it for the foreseeable
future.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/alpine.DEB.2.21.2605201204260.1450@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski:
"Delete some obsolete networking code
Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core
networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and
noobs try to fix them.
If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse
this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked
about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time
someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many
of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it
go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most
users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow
stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.
We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so
we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code
behind us"
* tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next:
drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver
drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver
drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir
net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver
net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP
caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER
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The smc91c92 was written by David A Hinds in 1999. It is an PCMCIA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.
Remove the Documentation as well, since it refers to kernel versions
1.2.13 until 1.3.71 and FTP sites which no longer exist.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-8-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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The 3c509 was written by Donald Becker between 1993-2000. It is an ISA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-1-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers
that are no longer in active use.
The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM, BR2684, and USB DSL modem
drivers (drivers/usb/atm/) are retained in-tree to maintain PPP
over ATM (PPPoA) and PPPoE-over-BR2684 support for DSL connections.
The Solos ADSL2+ PCI driver is also retained.
Removed ATM protocol modules:
- net/atm/clip.c - Classical IP over ATM (RFC 2225)
- net/atm/lec.c - LAN Emulation Client (LANE)
- net/atm/mpc.c, mpoa_caches.c, mpoa_proc.c - Multi-Protocol Over ATM
Removed PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers (drivers/atm/):
- adummy, atmtcp - software/testing ATM devices
- eni - Efficient Networks ENI155P (OC-3, ~1995)
- fore200e - FORE Systems 200E PCI/SBUS (OC-3, ~1999)
- he - ForeRunner HE (OC-3/OC-12, ~2000)
- idt77105 - IDT 77105 25 Mbps ATM PHY
- idt77252 - IDT 77252 NICStAR II (OC-3, ~2000)
- iphase - Interphase ATM PCI (OC-3/DS3/E3)
- lanai - Efficient Networks Speedstream 3010
- nicstar - IDT 77201 NICStAR (155/25 Mbps, ~1999)
- suni - PMC S/UNI SONET PHY library
Also clean up references in:
- net/bridge/ - remove ATM LANE hook (br_fdb_test_addr_hook,
br_fdb_test_addr)
- net/core/dev.c - remove br_fdb_test_addr_hook export
- defconfig files - remove ATM driver config options
The removed code is moved to an out-of-tree module package (mod-orphan).
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
to protect our sanity.
The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.
Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Remove CAIF (Communication CPU to Application CPU Interface), the
ST-Ericsson modem protocol. The subsystem has been orphaned since 2013.
The last meaningful changes from the maintainers were in March 2013:
a8c7687bf216 ("caif_virtio: Check that vringh_config is not null")
b2273be8d2df ("caif_virtio: Use vringh_notify_enable correctly")
0d2e1a2926b1 ("caif_virtio: Introduce caif over virtio")
Not-so-coincidentally, according to "the Internet" ST-Ericsson officially
shut down its modem joint venture in Aug 2013.
If anyone is using this code please yell!
In the 13 years since, the code has accumulated 200 non-merge commits,
of which 71 were cross-tree API changes, 21 carried Fixes: tags, and
the remaining ~110 were cleanups, doc conversions, treewide refactors,
and one partial removal (caif_hsi, ca75bcf0a83b).
We are still getting fixes to this code, in the last 10 days there were
3 reports on security@ about CAIF that I have been CCed on.
UAPI constants (AF_CAIF, ARPHRD_CAIF, N_CAIF, VIRTIO_ID_CAIF) and the
SELinux classmap entry are intentionally kept for ABI stability.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416182829.1440262-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Move unicast promiscuity tracking into netdev_rx_mode_work so it runs
under netdev_ops_lock instead of under the addr_lock spinlock. This
is required because __dev_set_promiscuity calls dev_change_rx_flags
and __dev_notify_flags, both of which may need to sleep.
Change ASSERT_RTNL() to netdev_ops_assert_locked() in
__dev_set_promiscuity, netif_set_allmulti and __dev_change_flags
since these are now called from the work queue under the ops lock.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260214033859.43857-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/
Fixes: 78cd408356fe ("net: add missing instance lock to dev_set_promiscuity")
Reported-by: syzbot+2b3391f44313b3983e91@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416185712.2155425-5-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Add ndo_set_rx_mode_async callback that drivers can implement instead
of the legacy ndo_set_rx_mode. The legacy callback runs under the
netif_addr_lock spinlock with BHs disabled, preventing drivers from
sleeping. The async variant runs from a work queue with rtnl_lock and
netdev_lock_ops held, in fully sleepable context.
When __dev_set_rx_mode() sees ndo_set_rx_mode_async, it schedules
netdev_rx_mode_work instead of calling the driver inline. The work
function takes two snapshots of each address list (uc/mc) under
the addr_lock, then drops the lock and calls the driver with the
work copies. After the driver returns, it reconciles the snapshots
back to the real lists under the lock.
Add netif_rx_mode_sync() to opportunistically execute the pending
workqueue update inline, so that rx mode changes are committed
before returning to userspace:
- dev_change_flags (SIOCSIFFLAGS / RTM_NEWLINK)
- dev_set_promiscuity
- dev_set_allmulti
- dev_ifsioc SIOCADDMULTI / SIOCDELMULTI
- do_setlink (RTM_SETLINK)
Note that some deep hierarchies still do skip the lower updates via:
- dev_uc_sync
- dev_mc_sync
If we do end up hitting user-visible issues, we can add more calls to
netif_rx_mode_sync in specific places. But hopefully we should not,
the actual user-visible lists are still synced, it's that just HW state
that might be lagging.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416185712.2155425-3-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next
Florian Westphal says:
====================
netfilter: updates for net-next
1-3) IPVS updates from Julian Anastasov to enhance visibility into
IPVS internal state by exposing hash size, load factor etc and
allows userspace to tune the load factor used for resizing hash
tables.
4) reject empty/not nul terminated device names from xt_physdev.
This isn't a bug fix; existing code doesn't require a c-string.
But clean this up anyway because conceptually the interface name
definitely should be a c-string.
5) Switch nfnetlink to skb_mac_header helpers that didn't exist back
when this code was written. This gives us additional debug checks
but is not intended to change functionality.
6) Let the xt ttl/hoplimit match reject unknown operator modes.
This is a cleanup, the evaluation function simply returns false when
the mode is out of range. From Marino Dzalto.
7) xt_socket match should enable defrag after all other checks. This
bug is harmless, historically defrag could not be disabled either
except by rmmod.
8) remove UDP-Lite conntrack support, from Fernando Fernandez Mancera.
9) Avoid a couple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings in the old
xtables 32bit compat code, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
10) nftables fwd expression should drop packets when their ttl/hl has
expired. This is a bug fix deferred, its not deemed important
enough for -rc8.
11) Add additional checks before assuming the mac header is an ethernet
header, from Zhengchuan Liang.
* tag 'nf-next-26-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
netfilter: require Ethernet MAC header before using eth_hdr()
netfilter: nft_fwd_netdev: check ttl/hl before forwarding
netfilter: x_tables: Avoid a couple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
netfilter: conntrack: remove UDP-Lite conntrack support
netfilter: xt_socket: enable defrag after all other checks
netfilter: xt_HL: add pr_fmt and checkentry validation
netfilter: nfnetlink: prefer skb_mac_header helpers
netfilter: x_physdev: reject empty or not-nul terminated device names
ipvs: add conn_lfactor and svc_lfactor sysctl vars
ipvs: add ip_vs_status info
ipvs: show the current conn_tab size to users
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410112352.23599-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Add documentation for the IFLA_BR_STP_MODE bridge attribute in the
"User space STP helper" section of the bridge documentation. Reference
the BR_STP_MODE_* values via kernel-doc and describe the use case for
network namespace environments.
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Roulin <aroulin@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405205224.3163000-3-aroulin@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Allow the default load factor for the connection and service tables
to be configured.
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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Implement netdev_nl_queue_create_doit which creates a new rx queue in a
virtual netdev and then leases it to a rx queue in a physical netdev.
Example with ynl client:
# ynl --family netdev --output-json --do queue-create \
--json '{"ifindex": 8, "type": "rx", "lease": {"ifindex": 4, "queue": {"type": "rx", "id": 15}}}'
{'id': 1}
Note that the netdevice locking order is always from the virtual to
the physical device.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Co-developed-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402231031.447597-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Document the scope parameter for devlink resource show, which allows
filtering the dump to device-level or port-level resources only.
Signed-off-by: Or Har-Toov <ohartoov@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407194107.148063-13-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Document the port-level resource support and the option to dump all
resources, including both device-level and port-level entries.
Signed-off-by: Or Har-Toov <ohartoov@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Shay Drori <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407194107.148063-10-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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This is not used anywhere in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406212158.721806-2-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Fix two typos:
- 'Subfunctons' -> 'Subfunctions'
- 'subfuction' -> 'subfunction'
Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <joe@dama.to>
Signed-off-by: Ryohei Kinugawa <ryohei.kinugawa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324053416.70166-1-ryohei.kinugawa@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Add two parameters for drivers supporting Rx CQE coalescing /
descriptor writeback.
ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_CQE_FRAMES:
Maximum number of frames that can be coalesced into a CQE or
writeback.
ETHTOOL_A_COALESCE_RX_CQE_NSECS:
Max time in nanoseconds after the first packet arrival in a
coalesced CQE or writeback to be sent.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317191826.1346111-2-haiyangz@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Document shared devlink instances for multiple PFs on the same chip.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-13-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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By default, the Linux TCP implementation does not shrink the
advertised window (RFC 7323 calls this "window retraction") with the
following exceptions:
- When an incoming segment cannot be added due to the receive buffer
running out of memory. Since commit 8c670bdfa58e ("tcp: correct
handling of extreme memory squeeze") a zero window will be
advertised in this case. It turns out that reaching the required
memory pressure is easy when window scaling is in use. In the
simplest case, sending a sufficient number of segments smaller than
the scale factor to a receiver that does not read data is enough.
- Commit b650d953cd39 ("tcp: enforce receive buffer memory limits by
allowing the tcp window to shrink") addressed the "eating memory"
problem by introducing a sysctl knob that allows shrinking the
window before running out of memory.
However, RFC 7323 does not only state that shrinking the window is
necessary in some cases, it also formulates requirements for TCP
implementations when doing so (Section 2.4).
This commit addresses the receiver-side requirements: After retracting
the window, the peer may have a snd_nxt that lies within a previously
advertised window but is now beyond the retracted window. This means
that all incoming segments (including pure ACKs) will be rejected
until the application happens to read enough data to let the peer's
snd_nxt be in window again (which may be never).
To comply with RFC 7323, the receiver MUST honor any segment that
would have been in window for any ACK sent by the receiver and, when
window scaling is in effect, SHOULD track the maximum window sequence
number it has advertised. This patch tracks that maximum window
sequence number rcv_mwnd_seq throughout the connection and uses it in
tcp_sequence() when deciding whether a segment is acceptable.
rcv_mwnd_seq is updated together with rcv_wup and rcv_wnd in
tcp_select_window(). If we count tcp_sequence() as fast path, it is
read in the fast path. Therefore, rcv_mwnd_seq is put into rcv_wnd's
cacheline group.
The logic for handling received data in tcp_data_queue() is already
sufficient and does not need to be updated.
Signed-off-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-tcp_rfc7323_retract_wnd_rfc-v3-1-4c7f96b1ec69@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Fix spelling mistake "Crate" to "Create" in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: ShravyaPanchagiri <shravy112@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311030450.8461-1-shravy112@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Add missing entry for sysctl_tcp_shrink_window.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310073855.564927-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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With the current port selection algorithm, ports after a reserved port
range or long time used port are used more often than others [1]. This
causes an uneven port usage distribution. This combines with cloud
environments blocking connections between the application server and the
database server if there was a previous connection with the same source
port, leading to connectivity problems between applications on cloud
environments.
The real issue here is that these firewalls cannot cope with
standards-compliant port reuse. This is a workaround for such situations
and an improvement on the distribution of ports selected.
The proposed solution is to implement a variant of RFC 6056 Algorithm 5.
The step size is selected randomly on every connect() call ensuring it
is a coprime with respect to the size of the range of ports we want to
scan. This way, we can ensure that all ports within the range are
scanned before returning an error. To enable this algorithm, the user
must configure the new sysctl option "net.ipv4.ip_local_port_step_width".
In addition, on graphs generated we can observe that the distribution of
source ports is more even with the proposed approach. [2]
[1] https://0xffsoftware.com/port_graph_current_alg.html
[2] https://0xffsoftware.com/port_graph_random_step_alg.html
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309023946.5473-2-fmancera@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Document missing SMC sysctl parameters limit_smc_hs and hs_ctrl
Signed-off-by: Kyoji Ogasawara <sawara04.o@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: D. Wythe<alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309124541.22723-3-sawara04.o@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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smcr_buf_type section used inconsistent indentation compared
with the rest of this document.
Signed-off-by: Kyoji Ogasawara <sawara04.o@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: D. Wythe<alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309124541.22723-2-sawara04.o@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Instead of storing the @mask at the beginning of rps_sock_flow_table,
use 5 low order bits of the rps_tag_ptr to store the log of the size.
This removes a potential cache line miss to fetch @mask.
More importantly, we can switch to vmalloc_huge() without wasting memory.
Tested with:
numactl --interleave=all bash -c "echo 4194304 >/proc/sys/net/core/rps_sock_flow_entries"
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302181432.1836150-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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The word "a" was used instead of "an" which is grammatically incorrect.
Fixed by changing from "a" to "an". This improves readability of the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Leon Kral <leon.j.kral@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227001151.41610-1-leon.j.kral@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Clarify the bit-by-bit bitset format's behavior around mandatory
attributes and bit identification. More specifically, the following
changes are made:
* Rephrase a misleading sentence which implies name and index are
mutually exclusive
* Describe that ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS nest is mandatory
* Describe that a request fails if inconsistent identifiers are given
Signed-off-by: Yohei Kojima <yk@y-koj.net>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ef90a56965ca66e57aa177929ce3e10c5ca815fa.1772031974.git.yk@y-koj.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Add entry for the neigh/default/gc_interval sysctl. This sysctl is
unused since kernel v2.6.8.
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller <g.goller@proxmox.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225095822.44050-1-g.goller@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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These sysctls were added in 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate
limitation") and their default values might be too small.
Some network tools send probes to closed UDP ports from many hosts
to estimate proportion of packet drops on a particular target.
This patch sets both sysctls to 10000.
Note the per-peer rate-limit (as described in RFC 4443 2.4 (f))
intent is still enforced.
This also increases security, see b38e7819cae9
("icmp: randomize the global rate limiter") for reference.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223161742.929830-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Add missing documentation for a neighbor table garbage collector sysctl
parameter in ip-sysctl.rst:
neigh/default/gc_stale_time: controls how long an unused neighbor entry
is kept before becoming eligible for garbage collection (default: 60
seconds)
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller <g.goller@proxmox.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223101257.47563-1-g.goller@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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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: fd0273d7939f ("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>
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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()
...
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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 f05643a0f60b
("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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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 ea47e70e476f ("net: phy: remove fixup-related definitions
from phy.h which are not used outside phylib").
Fixup unregistering functions were added with f38e7a32ee4f
("phy: add phy fixup unregister functions") in 2016, and last user
was removed with 6782d06a47ad ("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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Since commit 5055cccfc2d1 ("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>
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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>
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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>
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