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a23e1966932464e1c5226cb9ac4ce1d5fc10ba22 - Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:03:44 +0200

Merge branch 'next' into for-linusPrepare input updates for 6.11 merge window. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

6f47c7ae8c7afaf9ad291d39f0d3974f191a7946 - Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Tue, 28 May 2024 06:37:18 +0200

Merge tag 'v6.9' into nextSync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

60a2f25de7b8b785baee2932db932ae9a5b8c86d - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Thu, 16 May 2024 09:33:01 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-nextSome display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-less merging.Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

06d07429858317ded2db7986113a9e0129cd599b - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:57:56 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextSync to get the drm_printer changes to drm-intel-next.Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

41c177cf354126a22443b5c80cec9fdd313e67e1 - Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2024-02-08' into msm-next

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:34:07 +0100

Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2024-02-08' into msm-nextMerge the drm-misc tree to uprev MSM CI.Signed-off-by: Rob Clark List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

4db102dcb0396a4ccf89b1eac0f4eb3fd167a080 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:20:23 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextKickstart 6.9 development cycle.Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

be3382ecdf317f005e7d47356d0a9256cc36dd88 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:10:10 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextSync to v6.8-rc1.Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

0ea5c948cb64bab5bc7a5516774eb8536f05aa0d - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:38:05 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextBackmerge to bring Xe driver to drm-intel-next.Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

03c11eb3b16dc0058589751dfd91f254be2be613 - Merge tag 'v6.8-rc4' into x86/percpu, to resolve conflicts and refresh the branch

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:45:07 +0100

Merge tag 'v6.8-rc4' into x86/percpu, to resolve conflicts and refresh the branchConflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.hSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

42ac0be18bfa09c03f52244f7c3e15c89b38532f - Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm, to refresh the branch and pick up fixes

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:26:50 +0100

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm, to refresh the branch and pick up fixesSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

fe33c0fbed75dd464747c0faaedf94c7d8eb4101 - Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:58:28 +0100

Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

cf79f291f985662150363b4a93d16f88f12643bc - Merge v6.8-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:44:15 +0100

Merge v6.8-rc1 into drm-misc-fixesLet's kickstart the 6.8 fix cycle.Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

ab1c247094e323177a578b38f0325bf79f0317ac - Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf-tools-next

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 01:37:07 +0100

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf-tools-nextTo pick up fixes that went thru perf-tools for v6.7 and to get in syncwith upstream to check for drift in the copies of headers, etc.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

3bf3e21c15d4386a5f15118ec39bbc1b67ea5759 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:45:19 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextLet's kickstart the v6.8 release cycle.Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

3e7aeb78ab01c2c2f0e1f784e5ddec88fcd3d106 - Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:07:29 +0100

Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextPull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "The most interesting thing is probably the networking structs reorganization and a significant amount of changes is around self-tests. Core & protocols: - Analyze and reorganize core networking structs (socks, netdev, netns, mibs) to optimize cacheline consumption and set up build time warnings to safeguard against future header changes This improves TCP performances with many concurrent connections up to 40% - Add page-pool netlink-based introspection, exposing the memory usage and recycling stats. This helps indentify bad PP users and possible leaks - Refine TCP/DCCP source port selection to no longer favor even source port at connect() time when IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE is set. This lowers the time taken by connect() for hosts having many active connections to the same destination - Refactor the TCP bind conflict code, shrinking related socket structs - Refactor TCP SYN-Cookie handling, as a preparation step to allow arbitrary SYN-Cookie processing via eBPF - Tune optmem_max for 0-copy usage, increasing the default value to 128KB and namespecifying it - Allow coalescing for cloned skbs coming from page pools, improving RX performances with some common configurations - Reduce extension header parsing overhead at GRO time - Add bridge MDB bulk deletion support, allowing user-space to request the deletion of matching entries - Reorder nftables struct members, to keep data accessed by the datapath first - Introduce TC block ports tracking and use. This allows supporting multicast-like behavior at the TC layer - Remove UAPI support for retired TC qdiscs (dsmark, CBQ and ATM) and classifiers (RSVP and tcindex) - More data-race annotations - Extend the diag interface to dump TCP bound-only sockets - Conditional notification of events for TC qdisc class and actions - Support for WPAN dynamic associations with nearby devices, to form a sub-network using a specific PAN ID - Implement SMCv2.1 virtual ISM device support - Add support for Batman-avd mulicast packet type BPF: - Tons of verifier improvements: - BPF register bounds logic and range support along with a large test suite - log improvements - complete precision tracking support for register spills - track aligned STACK_ZERO cases as imprecise spilled registers. This improves the verifier "instructions processed" metric from single digit to 50-60% for some programs - support for user's global BPF subprogram arguments with few commonly requested annotations for a better developer experience - support tracking of BPF_JNE which helps cases when the compiler transforms (unsigned) "a > 0" into "if a == 0 goto xxx" and the like - several fixes - Add initial TX metadata implementation for AF_XDP with support in mlx5 and stmmac drivers. Two types of offloads are supported right now, that is, TX timestamp and TX checksum offload - Fix kCFI bugs in BPF all forms of indirect calls from BPF into kernel and from kernel into BPF work with CFI enabled. This allows BPF to work with CONFIG_FINEIBT=y - Change BPF verifier logic to validate global subprograms lazily instead of unconditionally before the main program, so they can be guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques - Support uid/gid options when mounting bpffs - Add a new kfunc which acquires the associated cgroup of a task within a specific cgroup v1 hierarchy where the latter is identified by its id - Extend verifier to allow bpf_refcount_acquire() of a map value field obtained via direct load which is a use-case needed in sched_ext - Add BPF link_info support for uprobe multi link along with bpftool integration for the latter - Support for VLAN tag in XDP hints - Remove deprecated bpfilter kernel leftovers given the project is developed in user-space (https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter) Misc: - Support for parellel TC self-tests execution - Increase MPTCP self-tests coverage - Updated the bridge documentation, including several so-far undocumented features - Convert all the net self-tests to run in unique netns, to avoid random failures due to conflict and allow concurrent runs - Add TCP-AO self-tests - Add kunit tests for both cfg80211 and mac80211 - Autogenerate Netlink families documentation from YAML spec - Add yml-gen support for fixed headers and recursive nests, the tool can now generate user-space code for all genetlink families for which we have specs - A bunch of additional module descriptions fixes - Catch incorrect freeing of pages belonging to a page pool Driver API: - Rust abstractions for network PHY drivers; do not cover yet the full C API, but already allow implementing functional PHY drivers in rust - Introduce queue and NAPI support in the netdev Netlink interface, allowing complete access to the device <> NAPIs <> queues relationship - Introduce notifications filtering for devlink to allow control application scale to thousands of instances - Improve PHY validation, requesting rate matching information for each ethtool link mode supported by both the PHY and host - Add support for ethtool symmetric-xor RSS hash - ACPI based Wifi band RFI (WBRF) mitigation feature for the AMD platform - Expose pin fractional frequency offset value over new DPLL generic netlink attribute - Convert older drivers to platform remove callback returning void - Add support for PHY package MMD read/write New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - Octeon CN10K devices - Broadcom 5760X P7 - Qualcomm SM8550 SoC - Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY - Bluetooth: - IMC Networks Bluetooth radio Removed: - WiFi: - libertas 16-bit PCMCIA support - Atmel at76c50x drivers - HostAP ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver - zd1201 802.11b USB dongles - Orinoco ISA/PCMCIA 802.11b driver - Aviator/Raytheon driver - Planet WL3501 driver - RNDIS USB 802.11b driver Driver updates: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - allow one by one port representors creation and removal - add temperature and clock information reporting - add get/set for ethtool's header split ringparam - add again FW logging - adds support switchdev hardware packet mirroring - iavf: implement symmetric-xor RSS hash - igc: add support for concurrent physical and free-running timers - i40e: increase the allowable descriptors - nVidia/Mellanox: - Preparation for Socket-Direct multi-dev netdev. That will allow in future releases combining multiple PFs devices attached to different NUMA nodes under the same netdev - Broadcom (bnxt): - TX completion handling improvements - add basic ntuple filter support - reduce MSIX vectors usage for MQPRIO offload - add VXLAN support, USO offload and TX coalesce completion for P7 - Marvell Octeon EP: - xmit-more support - add PF-VF mailbox support and use it for FW notifications for VFs - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - implement ethtool functions to operate pause param, ring param, coalesce channel number and msglevel - Netronome/Corigine (nfp): - add flow-steering support - support UDP segmentation offload - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual: - Xilinx AXI: remove duplicate DMA code adopting the dma engine driver - stmmac: add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping - TI AM654x sw: add mqprio, frame preemption & coalescing - gve: add support for non-4k page sizes. - virtio-net: support dynamic coalescing moderation - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches: - allow firmware upgrade without a reboot - more flexible support for bridge flooding via the compressed FID flooding mode - Ethernet embedded switches: - Microchip: - fine-tune flow control and speed configurations in KSZ8xxx - KSZ88X3: enable setting rmii reference - Renesas: - add jumbo frames support - Marvell: - 88E6xxx: add "eth-mac" and "rmon" stats support - Ethernet PHYs: - aquantia: add firmware load support - at803x: refactor the driver to simplify adding support for more chip variants - NXP C45 TJA11xx: Add MACsec offload support - Wifi: - MediaTek (mt76): - NVMEM EEPROM improvements - mt7996 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) improvements - mt7996 Wireless Ethernet Dispatcher (WED) support - mt7996 36-bit DMA support - Qualcomm (ath12k): - support for a single MSI vector - WCN7850: support AP mode - Intel (iwlwifi): - new debugfs file fw_dbg_clear - allow concurrent P2P operation on DFS channels - Bluetooth: - QCA2066: support HFP offload - ISO: more broadcast-related improvements - NXP: better recovery in case receiver/transmitter get out of sync"* tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1714 commits) lan78xx: remove redundant statement in lan78xx_get_eee lan743x: remove redundant statement in lan743x_ethtool_get_eee bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_rx_flow_steer() bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_srxclsrldel() bnxt_en: Remove unneeded variable in bnxt_hwrm_clear_vnic_filter() tcp: Revert no longer abort SYN_SENT when receiving some ICMP Revert "mlx5 updates 2023-12-20" Revert "net: stmmac: Enable Per DMA Channel interrupt" ipvlan: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API ipvlan: Fix a typo in a comment net/sched: Remove ipt action tests net: stmmac: Use interrupt mode INTM=1 for per channel irq net: stmmac: Add support for TX/RX channel interrupt net: stmmac: Make MSI interrupt routine generic dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: per channel irq net: phy: at803x: make read_status more generic net: phy: at803x: add support for cdt cross short test for qca808x net: phy: at803x: refactor qca808x cable test get status function net: phy: at803x: generalize cdt fault length function net: ethernet: cortina: Drop TSO support ... List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

2df6bde352be531b6cde442500899d89fc990c65 - Merge branch 'selftests-tc-testing-updates-and-cleanups-for-tdc'

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 03:15:44 +0100

Merge branch 'selftests-tc-testing-updates-and-cleanups-for-tdc'Pedro Tammela says:====================selftests: tc-testing: updates and cleanups for tdcAddress the recommendations from the previous series and cleanup someleftovers.====================Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231124154248.315470-1-pctammela@mojatatu.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

a79d8ba734bdbd2574ad16dd1b96506e5f642c4a - selftests: tc-testing: remove buildebpf plugin

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:42:44 +0100

selftests: tc-testing: remove buildebpf pluginAs tdc only tests loading/deleting and anything more complicated isbetter left to the ebpf test suite, provide a pre-compiled version of'action.c' and don't bother compiling it in kselftests or on the flyat all.Cc: Davide Caratti Signed-off-by: Pedro Tammela Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231124154248.315470-2-pctammela@mojatatu.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

5d2d4a9f603a47403395408f64b1261ca61f6d50 - Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent'

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:15:40 +0100

Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent'Avoid conflicts, base on fixes.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

89ed67ef126c4160349c1b96fdb775ea6170ac90 - Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:10:11 +0100

Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextPull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a route attribute. - Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit). - The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler: - add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling - support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR) - improve inactive flow reporting - optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality - Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern replacement for the old MD5 option. - Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to TCP_INFO. - Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets. - Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was shutdown(). - Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft. - Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode. - Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable. - Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps limit the number of wakeups. - Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire table. - Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver. - Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks. - Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at runtime. - Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different filters. - MCTP over I3C. BPF: - Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode. - Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra flexibility around handling of the exit / failure: https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/ - Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the value for the current CPU. This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps. - Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs of different services. - Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs. - Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF. - Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup(). - Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU. - Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and fentry/fexit programs. - Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs. - Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations. - Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x. Changes to common code: - overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with flexible array members. - Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers. Driver API: - Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks. - Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in network time distribution. - Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code. Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE. - Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop(). - Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC addresses. - Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames. - Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule(). - Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages. Misc: - A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric. - A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees. - A lot of strncpy -> strscpy and printf format fixes. - Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers. - Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core. Removed: - AppleTalk COPS. - AppleTalk ipddp. - TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver. Drivers: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs - make CRC/FCS stripping configurable - cross-timestamping for E823 devices - basic support for E830 devices - use aux-bus for managing client drivers - i40e: report firmware versions via devlink - nVidia/Mellanox: - support 4-port NICs - increase max number of channels to 256 - optimize / parallelize SF creation flow - Broadcom (bnxt): - enhance NIC temperature reporting - support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration - Marvell OcteonTX2: - PTP pulse-per-second output support - enable hardware timestamping for VFs - Solarflare/AMD: - conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - expose HW statistics - Pensando/AMD: - support PCI level reset - narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized - Netronome/Corigine (nfp): - support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual: - Synopsys (stmmac): - add Loongson-1 SoC support - enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities - enable PPS input support on all 5 channels - increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms - RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags - xen: support SW packet timestamping - add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM) - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches: - avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks in ACL region - Ethernet embedded switches: - Microchip: - support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance - ksz9477: partial ACL support - ksz9477: HSR offload - ksz9477: Wake on LAN - Realtek: - rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port - Ethernet PHYs: - support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs - TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking - CAN: - add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers - at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers - WiFi: - MediaTek (mt76): - new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices - HW wireless <> Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips - mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - WCN7850: - enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band - hardware rfkill support - enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to make scan faster - read board data variant name from SMBIOS - QCN9274: mesh support - RealTek (rtw89): - TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC) - Silicon Labs (wfx): - Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support - Bluetooth: - ISO: many improvements for broadcast support - mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED - add support for QCA2066 - btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend"* tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits) net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos() net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size() iavf: delete the iavf client interface iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme iavf: use unregister_netdev iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops iavf: fix comments about old bit locks doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types ipvlan: properly track tx_errors netdevsim: Block until all devices are released nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb() net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -> "Energy" net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation ... List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README

f940d704d87a8056e7639461f4ecda7bc2e7bd03 - Merge branch 'selftests-tc-testing-parallel-tdc'

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:51:09 +0200

Merge branch 'selftests-tc-testing-parallel-tdc'Pedro Tammela says:====================selftests/tc-testing: parallel tdcAs the number of tdc tests is growing, so is our completion wall time.One of the ideas to improve this is to run tests in parallel, as theyare self contained.This series allows for tests to run in parallel, in batches of 32 tests.Not all tests can run in parallel as they might conflict with each other.The code will still honor this requirement even when trying to run thetests over the worker pool.In order to make this happen we had to localize the test resources(patches 1 and 2), where instead of having all tests sharing one singlenamespace and veths devices each test now gets it's own local namespace and devices.Even though the tests serialize over rtnl_lock in the kernel, wemeasured a speedup of about 3x in a test VM.====================Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919135404.1778595-1-pctammela@mojatatu.comSigned-off-by: Paolo Abeni List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/README