7e68dd7d07
Core
----
- Allow live renaming when an interface is up
- Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
performances of complex queue discipline configurations.
- Add inet drop monitor support.
- A few GRO performance improvements.
- Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
data races.
- De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
infrastructure.
- A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements.
- Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets
- Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up
the workload with the number of available CPUs.
- Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload.
BPF
---
- Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
lists in BPF.
- Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
programs.
- Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
storage helpers.
- A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements.
- Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
and replay of results.
- Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code.
- Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps.
- Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs.
- Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion
of access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs.
- Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps.
- Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
values.
- Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions.
Protocols
---------
- TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links.
- TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting
back to fast[er]-path.
- UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table.
- IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal.
- Netlink: support different type policies for each generic
netlink operation.
- MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support.
- MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets
events.
- SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF
devices.
- Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support.
- Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
support multicast scenarios.
- More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all
the existing drivers to internal TX queue usage.
- IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
complete header processing and crypto offloading.
- IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
reporting.
- RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
required locking.
- IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering
support, initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks.
- Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps.
- Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support.
Driver API
----------
- PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard
level 1 and the higher power levels.
- New API for netdev <-> devlink_port linkage.
- PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
implementation.
- DSA: add support for rx offloading.
- Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol.
- Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging.
- Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed.
- Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
migratable.
- Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
queuing.
- Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory.
- New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem.
- New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- Ethernet:
- Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches.
- Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch.
- WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC.
- Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet.
- Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch.
- Microsoft Azure Network Adapter.
- Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter.
- PHY:
- Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412.
- Motorcomm YT8531S.
- PTP:
- Orolia ART-CARD.
- WiFi:
- MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices.
- RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
devices.
- Bluetooth:
- Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets.
- Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS.
- Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device.
Drivers
-------
- CAN:
- gs_usb: bus error reporting support.
- kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (100G):
- extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping.
- implement devlink-rate support.
- support direct read from memory.
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate.
- Support for enhanced events compression.
- extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities.
- implement IPSec packet offload mode.
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
- better big TCP support.
- Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
- IPsec offload support.
- add support for multicast filter.
- Broadcom:
- RSS and PTP support improvements.
- AMD/SolarFlare:
- netlink extened ack improvements.
- add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats.
- Virtual NICs:
- ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support.
- small / embedded:
- FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support.
- Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood.
- TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support.
- Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support.
- Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
default.
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5):
- add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP.
- Mellanox mlxsw:
- add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support.
- add ip6gre support.
- Embedded Ethernet switches:
- Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
- improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support.
- enable flow offload support.
- Renesas:
- add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support.
- Microchip (lan966x):
- add full XDP support.
- add TC H/W offload via VCAP.
- enable PTP on bridge interfaces.
- Microchip (ksz8):
- add MTU support for KSZ8 series.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- support configuring channel dwell time during scan.
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support.
- add ack signal support.
- enable coredump support.
- remain_on_channel support.
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities.
- 320 MHz channels support.
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- new dynamic header firmware format support.
- wake-over-WLAN support.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Allow live renaming when an interface is up
- Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
performances of complex queue discipline configurations
- Add inet drop monitor support
- A few GRO performance improvements
- Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
data races
- De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
infrastructure
- A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements
- Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets
- Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up the
workload with the number of available CPUs
- Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload
BPF:
- Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
lists in BPF
- Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
programs
- Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
storage helpers
- A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements
- Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
and replay of results
- Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code
- Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps
- Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs
- Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion of
access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs
- Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps
- Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
values
- Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions
Protocols:
- TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links
- TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting back
to fast[er]-path
- UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table
- IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal
- Netlink: support different type policies for each generic netlink
operation
- MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support
- MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets events
- SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF devices
- Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support
- Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
support multicast scenarios
- More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all the
existing drivers to internal TX queue usage
- IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
complete header processing and crypto offloading
- IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
reporting
- RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
required locking
- IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering support,
initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks
- Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps
- Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support
Driver API:
- PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard level 1 and
the higher power levels
- New API for netdev <-> devlink_port linkage
- PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
implementation
- DSA: add support for rx offloading
- Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol
- Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging
- Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed
- Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
migratable
- Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
queuing
- Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory
- New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem
- New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches
- Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch
- WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC
- Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet
- Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
- Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
- Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter
- PHY:
- Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412
- Motorcomm YT8531S
- PTP:
- Orolia ART-CARD
- WiFi:
- MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices
- RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
devices
- Bluetooth:
- Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets
- Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS
- Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device
Drivers:
- CAN:
- gs_usb: bus error reporting support
- kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (100G):
- extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping
- implement devlink-rate support
- support direct read from memory
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate
- Support for enhanced events compression
- extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities
- implement IPSec packet offload mode
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
- better big TCP support
- Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
- IPsec offload support
- add support for multicast filter
- Broadcom:
- RSS and PTP support improvements
- AMD/SolarFlare:
- netlink extened ack improvements
- add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats
- Virtual NICs:
- ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support
- small / embedded:
- FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support
- Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood
- TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support
- Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support
- Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
default
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5):
- add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP
- Mellanox mlxsw:
- add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support
- add ip6gre support
- Embedded Ethernet switches:
- Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
- improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support
- enable flow offload support
- Renesas:
- add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support
- Microchip (lan966x):
- add full XDP support
- add TC H/W offload via VCAP
- enable PTP on bridge interfaces
- Microchip (ksz8):
- add MTU support for KSZ8 series
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- support configuring channel dwell time during scan
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support
- add ack signal support
- enable coredump support
- remain_on_channel support
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities
- 320 MHz channels support
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- new dynamic header firmware format support
- wake-over-WLAN support"
* tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2002 commits)
ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit
net: lan966x: Remove a useless test in lan966x_ptp_add_trap()
net: ipa: add IPA v4.7 support
dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: Add SM6350 compatible
bnxt: Use generic HBH removal helper in tx path
IPv6/GRO: generic helper to remove temporary HBH/jumbo header in driver
selftests: forwarding: Add bridge MDB test
selftests: forwarding: Rename bridge_mdb test
bridge: mcast: Support replacement of MDB port group entries
bridge: mcast: Allow user space to specify MDB entry routing protocol
bridge: mcast: Allow user space to add (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
bridge: mcast: Add support for (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
bridge: mcast: Avoid arming group timer when (S, G) corresponds to a source
bridge: mcast: Add a flag for user installed source entries
bridge: mcast: Expose __br_multicast_del_group_src()
bridge: mcast: Expose br_multicast_new_group_src()
bridge: mcast: Add a centralized error path
bridge: mcast: Place netlink policy before validation functions
bridge: mcast: Split (*, G) and (S, G) addition into different functions
bridge: mcast: Do not derive entry type from its filter mode
...
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