Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

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

- Improve drop account scalability on NUM

Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

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

- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS

- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions

- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
offloads capabilities

- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)

- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath

- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
such HW

- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds

- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
synchronize_rcu() on delete

- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
magnitude faster on large switches

- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios

- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
recent TCP autotuning changes

- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down

- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups

- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races

- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
reducing code duplication

- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
XDP buffer

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
parser

Driver API:

- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection

- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups

- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath

- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
in RX ring queries and RSS configuration

- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause

- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
controlling the average smoothing factor

Device drivers:

- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)

- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
devices (dibps)

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts

- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
to improve memory efficiency

- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4):
- support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups

- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115

- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling

- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support

- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
- GTK rekey fixes

- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"

* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
net: use llist for sd->defer_list
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
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Merge branch '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue

Tony Nguyen says:

====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2025-09-19 (ice, idpf, iavf, ixgbevf, f

Merge branch '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue

Tony Nguyen says:

====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2025-09-19 (ice, idpf, iavf, ixgbevf, fm10k)

Paul adds support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
for E830 devices on ice. ETF is configured per-queue using tc-etf Qdisc;
a new Tx flow mechanism utilizes a dedicated timestamp ring alongside
the standard Tx ring. The timestamp ring contains descriptors that
specify when hardware should transmit packets; up to 2048 Tx queues can
be supported.

Additional info: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20250818132257.21720-1-paul.greenwalt@intel.com/

Dave removes excess cleanup call to ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes() in error
path.

Milena adds reporting of timestamping statistics to idpf.

Alex changes error variable type for code clarity for iavf and ixgbevf.

Brahmajit Das removes unused parameter from fm10k_unbind_hw_stats_q().

* '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue:
net: intel: fm10k: Fix parameter idx set but not used
ixgbevf: fix proper type for error code in ixgbevf_resume()
iavf: fix proper type for error code in iavf_resume()
idpf: add HW timestamping statistics
ice: Remove deprecated ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes() call
ice: add E830 Earliest TxTime First Offload support
ice: move ice_qp_[ena|dis] for reuse
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919175412.653707-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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ice: Remove deprecated ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes() call

Moving the code to handle the LAG part of a VF reset to helper
functions deprecated the function ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes().
The cleanup miss

ice: Remove deprecated ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes() call

Moving the code to handle the LAG part of a VF reset to helper
functions deprecated the function ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes().
The cleanup missed a call to this function in the error path of
ice_vc_cfg_qs_msg().

In the case that would end in the error path, a NULL pointer would
be encountered due to the empty list of netdevs for members of the
aggregate.

Remove the unnecessary call to ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes(), and since
this is the only call to this function, remove the function as well.

Fixes: 351d8d8ab6af ("ice: breakout common LAG code into helpers")
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
Tested-by: Priya Singh <priyax.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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ice: add E830 Earliest TxTime First Offload support

E830 supports Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload, which is
configured via the ETF Qdisc on a per-queue basis (see tc-etf(8)). ETF
introd

ice: add E830 Earliest TxTime First Offload support

E830 supports Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload, which is
configured via the ETF Qdisc on a per-queue basis (see tc-etf(8)). ETF
introduces a new Tx flow mechanism that utilizes a timestamp ring
(tstamp_ring) alongside the standard Tx ring. This timestamp ring is
used to indicate when hardware will transmit a packet. Tx Time is
supported on the first 2048 Tx queues of the device, and the NVM image
limits the maximum number of Tx queues to 2048 for the device.

The allocation and initialization of the timestamp ring occur when the
feature is enabled on a specific Tx queue via tc-etf. The requested Tx
Time queue index cannot be greater than the number of Tx queues
(vsi->num_txq).

To support ETF, the following flags and bitmap are introduced:

- ICE_F_TXTIME: Device feature flag set for E830 NICs, indicating ETF
support.
- txtime_txqs: PF-level bitmap set when ETF is enabled and cleared
when disabled for a specific Tx queue. It is used by
ice_is_txtime_ena() to check if ETF is allocated and configured on
any Tx queue, which is checked during Tx ring allocation.
- ICE_TX_FLAGS_TXTIME: Per Tx ring flag set when ETF is allocated and
configured for a specific Tx queue. It determines ETF status during
packet transmission and is checked by ice_is_txtime_ena() to verify
if ETF is enabled on any Tx queue.

Due to a hardware issue that can result in a malicious driver detection
event, additional timestamp descriptors are required when wrapping
around the timestamp ring. Up to 64 additional timestamp descriptors
are reserved, reducing the available Tx descriptors.

To accommodate this, ICE_MAX_NUM_DESC_BY_MAC is introduced, defining:

- E830: Maximum Tx descriptor count of 8096 (8K - 32 - 64 for timestamp
fetch descriptors).
- E810 and E82X: Maximum Tx descriptor count of 8160 (8K - 32).

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Alice Michael <alice.michael@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Michael <alice.michael@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Greenwalt <paul.greenwalt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <sx.rinitha@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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Merge branch '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue

Tony Nguyen says:

====================
ice: split ice_virtchnl.c git-blame friendly way

Przemek Kitszel says

Merge branch '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue

Tony Nguyen says:

====================
ice: split ice_virtchnl.c git-blame friendly way

Przemek Kitszel says:

Split ice_virtchnl.c into two more files (+headers), in a way
that git-blame works better.
Then move virtchnl files into a new subdir.
No logic changes.

I have developed (or discovered ;)) how to split a file in a way that
both old and new are nice in terms of git-blame
There was not much discussion on [RFC], so I would like to propose
to go forward with this approach.

There are more commits needed to have it nice, so it forms a git-log vs
git-blame tradeoff, but (after the brief moment that this is on the top)
we spend orders of magnitude more time looking at the blame output (and
commit messages linked from that) - so I find it much better to see
actual logic changes instead of "move xx to yy" stuff (typical for
"squashed/single-commit splits").

Cherry-picks/rebases work the same with this method as with simple
"squashed/single-commit" approach (literally all commits squashed into
one (to have better git-log, but shitty git-blame output).

Rationale for the split itself is, as usual, "file is big and we want to
extend it".

* '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue:
ice: finish virtchnl.c split into rss.c
ice: extract virt/rss.c: cleanup - p2
ice: extract virt/rss.c: cleanup - p1
ice: split RSS stuff out of virtchnl.c - copy back
ice: split RSS stuff out of virtchnl.c - tmp rename
ice: finish virtchnl.c split into queues.c
ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p3
ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p2
ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p1
ice: split queue stuff out of virtchnl.c - copy back
ice: split queue stuff out of virtchnl.c - tmp rename
ice: add virt/ and move ice_virtchnl* files there
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827224641.415806-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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ice: finish virtchnl.c split into queues.c

Move queue configuration functions out of virtchnl.c to queues.c.

Technically the move was started by an earlier commit of the series,
that was duplicatin

ice: finish virtchnl.c split into queues.c

Move queue configuration functions out of virtchnl.c to queues.c.

Technically the move was started by an earlier commit of the series,
that was duplicating virtchnl.c as queues.c (what forces git to nicely
show blame when asked), followed by a couple of cleanup commits (that
removed stuff that is not moved from the new file, again - multiple
commits, to avoid git saving on changes lines by reusing removed lines
as a content of some kept function), with this final commit actually
enabling compilation of the new file, removing stuff from the virtchnl.c,
and making some moved functions visible (via static keyword removal).

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p3

Remove final portion of the stuff that stays within virtchnl.c,
(separate commits to have nicer, removal-only, history).

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <prz

ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p3

Remove final portion of the stuff that stays within virtchnl.c,
(separate commits to have nicer, removal-only, history).

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p2

Remove next piece of the content that stays in virtchnl.c,
(separate commits to have nicer git history).

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@

ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p2

Remove next piece of the content that stays in virtchnl.c,
(separate commits to have nicer git history).

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p1

Start removing stuff from virt/queues.c that will be kept in the
main virtchnl file.

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-of

ice: extract virt/queues.c: cleanup - p1

Start removing stuff from virt/queues.c that will be kept in the
main virtchnl file.

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'add-virt/queues.c' into HEAD

This effectively copies virtchnl.c as queues.c in a way that both files
have the same history of edits.

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel

Merge branch 'add-virt/queues.c' into HEAD

This effectively copies virtchnl.c as queues.c in a way that both files
have the same history of edits.

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>

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ice: split queue stuff out of virtchnl.c - tmp rename

Temporary rename of virtchnl.c into queues.c

In order to split virtchnl.c in a way that makes it much easier
to still blame new file, we do it

ice: split queue stuff out of virtchnl.c - tmp rename

Temporary rename of virtchnl.c into queues.c

In order to split virtchnl.c in a way that makes it much easier
to still blame new file, we do it via multiple git steps.

Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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