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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Introduce and use a single page frag cache for allocating small skb
heads, clawing back the 10-20% performance regression in UDP flood
test from previous fixes.
- Run packets which already went thru HW coalescing thru SW GRO. This
significantly improves TCP segment coalescing and simplifies
deployments as different workloads benefit from HW or SW GRO.
- Shrink the size of the base zero-copy send structure.
- Move TCP init under a new slow / sleepable version of DO_ONCE().
BPF:
- Add BPF-specific, any-context-safe memory allocator.
- Add helpers/kfuncs for PKCS#7 signature verification from BPF
programs.
- Define a new map type and related helpers for user space -> kernel
communication over a ring buffer (BPF_MAP_TYPE_USER_RINGBUF).
- Allow targeting BPF iterators to loop through resources of one
task/thread.
- Add ability to call selected destructive functions. Expose
crash_kexec() to allow BPF to trigger a kernel dump. Use
CAP_SYS_BOOT check on the loading process to judge permissions.
- Enable BPF to collect custom hierarchical cgroup stats efficiently
by integrating with the rstat framework.
- Support struct arguments for trampoline based programs. Only
structs with size <= 16B and x86 are supported.
- Invoke cgroup/connect{4,6} programs for unprivileged ICMP ping
sockets (instead of just TCP and UDP sockets).
- Add a helper for accessing CLOCK_TAI for time sensitive network
related programs.
- Support accessing network tunnel metadata's flags.
- Make TCP SYN ACK RTO tunable by BPF programs with TCP Fast Open.
- Add support for writing to Netfilter's nf_conn:mark.
Protocols:
- WiFi: more Extremely High Throughput (EHT) and Multi-Link Operation
(MLO) work (802.11be, WiFi 7).
- vsock: improve support for SO_RCVLOWAT.
- SMC: support SO_REUSEPORT.
- Netlink: define and document how to use netlink in a "modern" way.
Support reporting missing attributes via extended ACK.
- IPSec: support collect metadata mode for xfrm interfaces.
- TCPv6: send consistent autoflowlabel in SYN_RECV state and RST
packets.
- TCP: introduce optional per-netns connection hash table to allow
better isolation between namespaces (opt-in, at the cost of memory
and cache pressure).
- MPTCP: support TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT.
- Add NEXT-C-SID support in Segment Routing (SRv6) End behavior.
- Adjust IP_UNICAST_IF sockopt behavior for connected UDP sockets.
- Open vSwitch:
- Allow specifying ifindex of new interfaces.
- Allow conntrack and metering in non-initial user namespace.
- TLS: support the Korean ARIA-GCM crypto algorithm.
- Remove DECnet support.
Driver API:
- Allow selecting the conduit interface used by each port in DSA
switches, at runtime.
- Ethernet Power Sourcing Equipment and Power Device support.
- Add tc-taprio support for queueMaxSDU parameter, i.e. setting per
traffic class max frame size for time-based packet schedules.
- Support PHY rate matching - adapting between differing host-side
and link-side speeds.
- Introduce QUSGMII PHY mode and 1000BASE-KX interface mode.
- Validate OF (device tree) nodes for DSA shared ports; make
phylink-related properties mandatory on DSA and CPU ports.
Enforcing more uniformity should allow transitioning to phylink.
- Require that flash component name used during update matches one of
the components for which version is reported by info_get().
- Remove "weight" argument from driver-facing NAPI API as much as
possible. It's one of those magic knobs which seemed like a good
idea at the time but is too indirect to use in practice.
- Support offload of TLS connections with 256 bit keys.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- Microchip KSZ9896 6-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
- Renesas Ethernet AVB (EtherAVB-IF) Gen4 SoCs
- Analog Devices ADIN1110 and ADIN2111 industrial single pair
Ethernet (10BASE-T1L) MAC+PHY.
- Rockchip RV1126 Gigabit Ethernet (a version of stmmac IP).
- Ethernet SFPs / modules:
- RollBall / Hilink / Turris 10G copper SFPs
- HALNy GPON module
- WiFi:
- CYW43439 SDIO chipset (brcmfmac)
- CYW89459 PCIe chipset (brcmfmac)
- BCM4378 on Apple platforms (brcmfmac)
Drivers:
- CAN:
- gs_usb: HW timestamp support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- lan8814: cable diagnostics
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (100G):
- implement control of FCS/CRC stripping
- port splitting via devlink
- L2TPv3 filtering offload
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- tunnel offload for sub-functions
- MACSec offload, w/ Extended packet number and replay window
offload
- significantly restructure, and optimize the AF_XDP support,
align the behavior with other vendors
- Huawei:
- configuring DSCP map for traffic class selection
- querying standard FEC statistics
- querying SerDes lane number via ethtool
- Marvell/Cavium:
- egress priority flow control
- MACSec offload
- AMD/SolarFlare:
- PTP over IPv6 and raw Ethernet
- small / embedded:
- ax88772: convert to phylink (to support SFP cages)
- altera: tse: convert to phylink
- ftgmac100: support fixed link
- enetc: standard Ethtool counters
- macb: ZynqMP SGMII dynamic configuration support
- tsnep: support multi-queue and use page pool
- lan743x: Rx IP & TCP checksum offload
- igc: add xdp frags support to ndo_xdp_xmit
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Marvell (prestera):
- support SPAN port features (traffic mirroring)
- nexthop object offloading
- Microchip (sparx5):
- multicast forwarding offload
- QoS queuing offload (tc-mqprio, tc-tbf, tc-ets)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- support RGMII cmode
- NXP (felix):
- standardized ethtool counters
- Microchip (lan966x):
- QoS queuing offload (tc-mqprio, tc-tbf, tc-cbs, tc-ets)
- traffic policing and mirroring
- link aggregation / bonding offload
- QUSGMII PHY mode support
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- cold boot calibration support on WCN6750
- support to connect to a non-transmit MBSSID AP profile
- enable remain-on-channel support on WCN6750
- Wake-on-WLAN support for WCN6750
- support to provide transmit power from firmware via nl80211
- support to get power save duration for each client
- spectral scan support for 160 MHz
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- WiFi-to-Ethernet bridging offload for MT7986 chips
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- P2P support"
* tag 'net-next-6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1864 commits)
eth: pse: add missing static inlines
once: rename _SLOW to _SLEEPABLE
net: pse-pd: add regulator based PSE driver
dt-bindings: net: pse-dt: add bindings for regulator based PoDL PSE controller
ethtool: add interface to interact with Ethernet Power Equipment
net: mdiobus: search for PSE nodes by parsing PHY nodes.
net: mdiobus: fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy() rework error handling
net: add framework to support Ethernet PSE and PDs devices
dt-bindings: net: phy: add PoDL PSE property
net: marvell: prestera: Propagate nh state from hw to kernel
net: marvell: prestera: Add neighbour cache accounting
net: marvell: prestera: add stub handler neighbour events
net: marvell: prestera: Add heplers to interact with fib_notifier_info
net: marvell: prestera: Add length macros for prestera_ip_addr
net: marvell: prestera: add delayed wq and flush wq on deinit
net: marvell: prestera: Add strict cleanup of fib arbiter
net: marvell: prestera: Add cleanup of allocated fib_nodes
net: marvell: prestera: Add router nexthops ABI
eth: octeon: fix build after netif_napi_add() changes
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Return EBUSY if can't get mode lock
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