89ed67ef12
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
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull 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
...
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