f86d1fbbe7
Core
----
- Refactor the forward memory allocation to better cope with memory
pressure with many open sockets, moving from a per socket cache to
a per-CPU one
- Replace rwlocks with RCU for better fairness in ping, raw sockets
and IP multicast router.
- Network-side support for IO uring zero-copy send.
- A few skb drop reason improvements, including codegen the source file
with string mapping instead of using macro magic.
- Rename reference tracking helpers to a more consistent
netdev_* schema.
- Adapt u64_stats_t type to address load/store tearing issues.
- Refine debug helper usage to reduce the log noise caused by bots.
BPF
---
- Improve socket map performance, avoiding skb cloning on read
operation.
- Add support for 64 bits enum, to match types exposed by kernel.
- Introduce support for sleepable uprobes program.
- Introduce support for enum textual representation in libbpf.
- New helpers to implement synproxy with eBPF/XDP.
- Improve loop performances, inlining indirect calls when
possible.
- Removed all the deprecated libbpf APIs.
- Implement new eBPF-based LSM flavor.
- Add type match support, which allow accurate queries to the
eBPF used types.
- A few TCP congetsion control framework usability improvements.
- Add new infrastructure to manipulate CT entries via eBPF programs.
- Allow for livepatch (KLP) and BPF trampolines to attach to the same
kernel function.
Protocols
---------
- Introduce per network namespace lookup tables for unix sockets,
increasing scalability and reducing contention.
- Preparation work for Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support.
- Add support to forciby close TIME_WAIT TCP sockets via user-space
tools.
- Significant performance improvement for the TLS 1.3 receive path,
both for zero-copy and not-zero-copy.
- Support for changing the initial MTPCP subflow priority/backup
status
- Introduce virtually contingus buffers for sockets over RDMA,
to cope better with memory pressure.
- Extend CAN ethtool support with timestamping capabilities
- Refactor CAN build infrastructure to allow building only the needed
features.
Driver API
----------
- Remove devlink mutex to allow parallel commands on multiple links.
- Add support for pause stats in distributed switch.
- Implement devlink helpers to query and flash line cards.
- New helper for phy mode to register conversion.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- Ethernet DSA driver for the rockchip mt7531 on BPI-R2 Pro.
- Ethernet DSA driver for the Renesas RZ/N1 A5PSW switch.
- Ethernet DSA driver for the Microchip LAN937x switch.
- Ethernet PHY driver for the Aquantia AQR113C EPHY.
- CAN driver for the OBD-II ELM327 interface.
- CAN driver for RZ/N1 SJA1000 CAN controller.
- Bluetooth: Infineon CYW55572 Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth combo device.
Drivers
-------
- Intel Ethernet NICs:
- i40e: add support for vlan pruning
- i40e: add support for XDP framented packets
- ice: improved vlan offload support
- ice: add support for PPPoE offload
- Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5)
- refactor packet steering offload for performance and scalability
- extend support for TC offload
- refactor devlink code to clean-up the locking schema
- support stacked vlans for bridge offloads
- use TLS objects pool to improve connection rate
- Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
- extend support for IPv6 fields mangling offload
- add support for vepa mode in HW bridge
- better support for virtio data path acceleration (VDPA)
- enable TSO by default
- Microsoft vNIC driver (mana)
- add support for XDP redirect
- Others Ethernet drivers:
- bonding: add per-port priority support
- microchip lan743x: extend phy support
- Fungible funeth: support UDP segmentation offload and XDP xmit
- Solarflare EF100: add support for virtual function representors
- MediaTek SoC: add XDP support
- Mellanox Ethernet/IB switch (mlxsw):
- dropped support for unreleased H/W (XM router).
- improved stats accuracy
- unified bridge model coversion improving scalability
(parts 1-6)
- support for PTP in Spectrum-2 asics
- Broadcom PHYs
- add PTP support for BCM54210E
- add support for the BCM53128 internal PHY
- Marvell Ethernet switches (prestera):
- implement support for multicast forwarding offload
- Embedded Ethernet switches:
- refactor OcteonTx MAC filter for better scalability
- improve TC H/W offload for the Felix driver
- refactor the Microchip ksz8 and ksz9477 drivers to share
the probe code (parts 1, 2), add support for phylink
mac configuration
- Other WiFi:
- Microchip wilc1000: diable WEP support and enable WPA3
- Atheros ath10k: encapsulation offload support
Old code removal:
- Neterion vxge ethernet driver: this is untouched since more than
10 years.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking changes from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Refactor the forward memory allocation to better cope with memory
pressure with many open sockets, moving from a per socket cache to
a per-CPU one
- Replace rwlocks with RCU for better fairness in ping, raw sockets
and IP multicast router.
- Network-side support for IO uring zero-copy send.
- A few skb drop reason improvements, including codegen the source
file with string mapping instead of using macro magic.
- Rename reference tracking helpers to a more consistent netdev_*
schema.
- Adapt u64_stats_t type to address load/store tearing issues.
- Refine debug helper usage to reduce the log noise caused by bots.
BPF:
- Improve socket map performance, avoiding skb cloning on read
operation.
- Add support for 64 bits enum, to match types exposed by kernel.
- Introduce support for sleepable uprobes program.
- Introduce support for enum textual representation in libbpf.
- New helpers to implement synproxy with eBPF/XDP.
- Improve loop performances, inlining indirect calls when possible.
- Removed all the deprecated libbpf APIs.
- Implement new eBPF-based LSM flavor.
- Add type match support, which allow accurate queries to the eBPF
used types.
- A few TCP congetsion control framework usability improvements.
- Add new infrastructure to manipulate CT entries via eBPF programs.
- Allow for livepatch (KLP) and BPF trampolines to attach to the same
kernel function.
Protocols:
- Introduce per network namespace lookup tables for unix sockets,
increasing scalability and reducing contention.
- Preparation work for Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support.
- Add support to forciby close TIME_WAIT TCP sockets via user-space
tools.
- Significant performance improvement for the TLS 1.3 receive path,
both for zero-copy and not-zero-copy.
- Support for changing the initial MTPCP subflow priority/backup
status
- Introduce virtually contingus buffers for sockets over RDMA, to
cope better with memory pressure.
- Extend CAN ethtool support with timestamping capabilities
- Refactor CAN build infrastructure to allow building only the needed
features.
Driver API:
- Remove devlink mutex to allow parallel commands on multiple links.
- Add support for pause stats in distributed switch.
- Implement devlink helpers to query and flash line cards.
- New helper for phy mode to register conversion.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet DSA driver for the rockchip mt7531 on BPI-R2 Pro.
- Ethernet DSA driver for the Renesas RZ/N1 A5PSW switch.
- Ethernet DSA driver for the Microchip LAN937x switch.
- Ethernet PHY driver for the Aquantia AQR113C EPHY.
- CAN driver for the OBD-II ELM327 interface.
- CAN driver for RZ/N1 SJA1000 CAN controller.
- Bluetooth: Infineon CYW55572 Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth combo device.
Drivers:
- Intel Ethernet NICs:
- i40e: add support for vlan pruning
- i40e: add support for XDP framented packets
- ice: improved vlan offload support
- ice: add support for PPPoE offload
- Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5)
- refactor packet steering offload for performance and scalability
- extend support for TC offload
- refactor devlink code to clean-up the locking schema
- support stacked vlans for bridge offloads
- use TLS objects pool to improve connection rate
- Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
- extend support for IPv6 fields mangling offload
- add support for vepa mode in HW bridge
- better support for virtio data path acceleration (VDPA)
- enable TSO by default
- Microsoft vNIC driver (mana)
- add support for XDP redirect
- Others Ethernet drivers:
- bonding: add per-port priority support
- microchip lan743x: extend phy support
- Fungible funeth: support UDP segmentation offload and XDP xmit
- Solarflare EF100: add support for virtual function representors
- MediaTek SoC: add XDP support
- Mellanox Ethernet/IB switch (mlxsw):
- dropped support for unreleased H/W (XM router).
- improved stats accuracy
- unified bridge model coversion improving scalability (parts 1-6)
- support for PTP in Spectrum-2 asics
- Broadcom PHYs
- add PTP support for BCM54210E
- add support for the BCM53128 internal PHY
- Marvell Ethernet switches (prestera):
- implement support for multicast forwarding offload
- Embedded Ethernet switches:
- refactor OcteonTx MAC filter for better scalability
- improve TC H/W offload for the Felix driver
- refactor the Microchip ksz8 and ksz9477 drivers to share the
probe code (parts 1, 2), add support for phylink mac
configuration
- Other WiFi:
- Microchip wilc1000: diable WEP support and enable WPA3
- Atheros ath10k: encapsulation offload support
Old code removal:
- Neterion vxge ethernet driver: this is untouched since more than 10 years"
* tag 'net-next-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1890 commits)
doc: sfp-phylink: Fix a broken reference
wireguard: selftests: support UML
wireguard: allowedips: don't corrupt stack when detecting overflow
wireguard: selftests: update config fragments
wireguard: ratelimiter: use hrtimer in selftest
net/mlx5e: xsk: Discard unaligned XSK frames on striding RQ
net: usb: ax88179_178a: Bind only to vendor-specific interface
selftests: net: fix IOAM test skip return code
net: usb: make USB_RTL8153_ECM non user configurable
net: marvell: prestera: remove reduntant code
octeontx2-pf: Reduce minimum mtu size to 60
net: devlink: Fix missing mutex_unlock() call
net/tls: Remove redundant workqueue flush before destroy
net: txgbe: Fix an error handling path in txgbe_probe()
net: dsa: Fix spelling mistakes and cleanup code
Documentation: devlink: add add devlink-selftests to the table of contents
dccp: put dccp_qpolicy_full() and dccp_qpolicy_push() in the same lock
net: ionic: fix error check for vlan flags in ionic_set_nic_features()
net: ice: fix error NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER check in ice_vsi_sync_fltr()
nfp: flower: add support for tunnel offload without key ID
...
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