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| 04-Dec-2025 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing l
Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.
Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC queue.
Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle, but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.
Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already did for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock pressure, improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting (using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC 5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length, from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API:
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for 100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads IPsec and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.
Device drivers:
- Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.
- Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control, and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - support PPS in/out on all pins - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats - i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF - iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration - disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is unused - Meta (fbnic): - add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links - Wangxun: - support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback - support Rx coalescing offload - support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual: - Google (gve): - allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len - implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor format - Microsoft vNIC (mana): - support HW link state events - handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL) - AMD (amd-xgbe): - add device selftests - NXP (enetc): - add i.MX94 support - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp): - bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN - Broadcom switches (b53): - support port isolation - support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats - Lantiq/MaxLinear switches: - support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port - use regmap for register access - allow user to enable/disable learning - support Energy Efficient Ethernet - support configuring RMII clock delays - add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches - Synopsys (stmmac): - support using the HW clock in free running mode - add Eswin EIC7700 support - add Rockchip RK3506 support - add Altera Agilex5 support - Cadence (macb): - cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling - add EyeQ5 support - TI: - icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP - Airoha access points: - add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback - add AN7583 support - support out-of-order Tx completion processing - Power over Ethernet: - pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots - add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs: - Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support - Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs - micrel: - support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814 - enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814 - realtek: - cable testing support on RTL8224 - interrupt support on RTL8221B - motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853 - microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag - mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers: - m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up - remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling - mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth: - add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi: - split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big - improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks - improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211 debugfs interface for it - HT action frame handling on 6 GHz - initial chanctx work towards NAN - MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw89): - support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU - initial work for RTL8922DE - improved injection support - Intel: - iwlwifi: new sniffer API support - MediaTek (mt76): - WED support for >32-bit DMA - airoha NPU support - regdomain improvements - continued WiFi7/MLO work - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath10k: factory test support - ath11k: TX power insertion support - ath12k: BSS color change support - ath12k: statistics improvements - brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk - rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"
* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits) net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen wireguard: uapi: move flag enums wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive() Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox ...
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| 21-Nov-2025 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge branch 'net-mdio-improve-reset-handling-of-mdio-devices'
Buday Csaba says:
==================== net: mdio: improve reset handling of mdio devices
This patchset refactors and slightly improve
Merge branch 'net-mdio-improve-reset-handling-of-mdio-devices'
Buday Csaba says:
==================== net: mdio: improve reset handling of mdio devices
This patchset refactors and slightly improves the reset handling of `mdio_device`.
The patches were split from a larger series, discussed previously in the links below.
The difference between v2 and v3, is that the helper function declarations have been moved to a new header file: drivers/net/phy/mdio-private.h See links for the previous versions, and for the now separate leak fix. ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1763473655.git.buday.csaba@prolan.hu Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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acde7ad9 |
| 18-Nov-2025 |
Buday Csaba <buday.csaba@prolan.hu> |
net: mdio: common handling of phy device reset properties
Unify the handling of the per device reset properties for `mdio_device`.
Merge mdio_device_register_gpiod() and mdio_device_register_reset(
net: mdio: common handling of phy device reset properties
Unify the handling of the per device reset properties for `mdio_device`.
Merge mdio_device_register_gpiod() and mdio_device_register_reset() into mdio_device_register_reset(), that handles both reset-controllers and reset-gpios. Move reading of the reset firmware properties (reset-assert-us, reset-deassert-us) from fwnode_mdio.c to mdio_device_register_reset(), so all reset related initialization code is kept in one place.
Introduce mdio_device_unregister_reset() to release the associated resources.
These changes make tracking the reset properties easier. Added kernel-doc for mdio_device_register/unregister_reset().
Signed-off-by: Buday Csaba <buday.csaba@prolan.hu> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/17c216efd7a47be17db104378b6aacfc8741d8b9.1763473655.git.buday.csaba@prolan.hu Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 18-Nov-2025 |
Buday Csaba <buday.csaba@prolan.hu> |
net: mdio: move device reset functions to mdio_device.c
The functions mdiobus_register_gpiod() and mdiobus_register_reset() handle the mdio device reset initialization, which belong to mdio_device.c
net: mdio: move device reset functions to mdio_device.c
The functions mdiobus_register_gpiod() and mdiobus_register_reset() handle the mdio device reset initialization, which belong to mdio_device.c. Move them from mdio_bus.c to mdio_device.c, and rename them to match the corresponding source file: mdio_device_register_gpio() and mdio_device_register_reset(). Remove 'static' qualifiers and declare them in drivers/net/phy/mdio-private.h (new header file).
Signed-off-by: Buday Csaba <buday.csaba@prolan.hu> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5f684838ee897130f21b21beb07695eea4af8988.1763473655.git.buday.csaba@prolan.hu Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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