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
...
Pull 'at_least' array size update from Eric Biggers:
"C supports lower bounds on the sizes of array parameters, using the
static keyword as follows: 'void f(int a[static 32]);'. This allows
the compiler to warn about a too-small array being passed.
As discussed, this reuse of the 'static' keyword, while standard, is a
bit obscure. Therefore, add an alias 'at_least' to compiler_types.h.
Then, add this 'at_least' annotation to the array parameters of
various crypto library functions"
* tag 'libcrypto-at-least-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
lib/crypto: sha2: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: sha1: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: poly1305: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: md5: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: curve25519: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: chacha: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: chacha20poly1305: Statically check fixed array lengths
compiler_types: introduce at_least parameter decoration pseudo keyword
wifi: iwlwifi: trans: rename at_least variable to min_mode
This patch continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which has begun
with the changes introducing new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag:
commit 128ea9f6cc ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
commit 930c2ea566 ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")
The point of the refactoring is to eventually alter the default behavior of
workqueues to become unbound by default so that their workload placement is
optimized by the scheduler.
Before that to happen after a careful review and conversion of each individual
case, workqueue users must be converted to the better named new workqueues with
no intended behaviour changes:
system_wq -> system_percpu_wq
system_unbound_wq -> systemd_dfl_wq
This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be
removed in the future.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120094524.45264-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc6).
No conflicts, adjacent changes in:
drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
96a9178a29 ("net: phy: micrel: lan8814 fix reset of the QSGMII interface")
61b7ade9ba ("net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs for lan8814")
and a trivial one in tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
One of the factors of a link's grade is the channel load, which is
calculated from the AP's bss load element.
The current code takes this element from the beacon for an active link,
and from bss->ies for an inactive link.
bss->ies is set to either the beacon's ies or to the probe response
ones, with preference to the probe response (meaning that if there was
even one probe response, the ies of it will be stored in bss->ies and
won't be overiden by the beacon ies).
The probe response can be very old, i.e. from the connection time,
where a beacon is updated before each link selection (which is
triggered only after a passive scan).
In such case, the bss load element in the probe response will not
include the channel load caused by the STA, where the beacon will.
This will cause the inactive link to always have a lower channel
load, and therefore an higher grade than the active link's one.
This causes repeated link switches, causing the throughput to drop.
Fix this by always taking the ies from the beacon, as those are for
sure new.
Fixes: d1e879ec60 ("wifi: iwlwifi: add iwlmld sub-driver")
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110145652.b493dbb1853a.I058ba7309c84159f640cc9682d1bda56dd56a536@changeid
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
The list_for_each_entry() iterator must not be used outside the loop.
Even though we break and check for NULL, doing so still violates kernel
iteration rules and triggers Coccinelle's use_after_iter.cocci warning.
Cache the matched entry in aux_roc_te and use it consistently after the
loop. This follows iterator best practices, resolves the warning, and
makes the code more maintainable.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016014919.383565-1-junjie.cao@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Non-HT frames can only be encoded in 20 MHz, however, they
could be duplicated on all/some of the subchannels (mostly
used for RTS/CTS), in which case the firmware will report
and estimate of the overall used bandwidth based on energy
detected. This could be confusing so don't report it that
way, always use 20 MHz for non-HT/legacy frames instead.
Note that currently the value doesn't appear to be used by
mac80211, it never checks the bandwidth field for legacy
encodings.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251019114304.23e6695039ca.I3da7c542bde6de4362755f200248dbcc12aa246e@changeid
When the throughput count reaches the threshold, EMLSR is no longer
blocked by throughput.
This doesn't mean that EMLSR will be activated immediately, since there
might be other reasons that block EMLSR.
When the throughput blocker is not set, check_tpt_wk should run every 5
seconds and check if the throughput blocker should be set (if the
throughtput counter dropped).
If not, it should reschedule itself.
In the current code, the worker will reschedule itself only if we are in
EMLSR. This is wrong, since we might be in a case where the throughput
blocker is not set but we are not in EMLSR, and then we will never check
again the throughput counters (and block EMLSR if needed).
Fix this by rescheduling the worker also when EMLSR is not active.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915113137.2a9cf2b2529d.I8284c0da9597e4c963e38ae133384f6f42044499@changeid
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc7).
No conflicts.
Adjacent changes:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h
9536fbe10c ("net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX")
7601a0a462 ("net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Plenty of things going on, notably:
- iwlwifi: major cleanups/rework
- brcmfmac: gets AP isolation support
- mac80211: gets more S1G support
* tag 'wireless-next-2025-09-11' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (94 commits)
wifi: mwifiex: fix endianness handling in mwifiex_send_rgpower_table
wifi: cfg80211: Remove the redundant wiphy_dev
wifi: mac80211: fix incorrect comment
wifi: cfg80211: update the time stamps in hidden ssid
wifi: mac80211: Fix HE capabilities element check
wifi: mac80211: add tx_handlers_drop statistics to ethtool
wifi: mac80211: fix reporting of all valid links in sta_set_sinfo()
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: CHANNEL_SURVEY_NOTIF is always supported
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: remove support of iwl_esr_mode_notif version 1
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: remove support from of sta cmd version 1
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: remove support of roc cmd version 5
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: remove support of mac cmd ver 2
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: don't consider phy cmd version 5
wifi: iwlwifi: implement wowlan status notification API update
wifi: iwlwifi: fw: Add ASUS to PPAG and TAS list
wifi: iwlwifi: add kunit tests for nvm parse
wifi: iwlwifi: api: add a flag to iwl_link_ctx_modify_flags
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: move ltr_enabled to the specific transport
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: move pm_support to the specific transport
wifi: iwlwifi: rename iwl_finish_nic_init
...
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250911100854.20445-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
