kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina, branch linux-6.18.y

net: ethernet: cortina: Use TOE/TSO on all TCP

2025-04-10T02:15:58Z

It is desireable to push the hardware accelerator to also process non-segmented TCP frames: we pass the skb->len to the "TOE/TSO" offloader and it will handle them. Without this quirk the driver becomes unstable and lock up and and crash. I do not know exactly why, but it is probably due to the TOE (TCP offload engine) feature that is coupled with the segmentation feature - it is not possible to turn one part off and not the other, either both TOE and TSO are active, or neither of them. Not having the TOE part active seems detrimental, as if that hardware feature is not really supposed to be turned off. The datasheet says: "Based on packet parsing and TCP connection/NAT table lookup results, the NetEngine puts the packets belonging to the same TCP connection to the same queue for the software to process. The NetEngine puts incoming packets to the buffer or series of buffers for a jumbo packet. With this hardware acceleration, IP/TCP header parsing, checksum validation and connection lookup are offloaded from the software processing." After numerous tests with the hardware locking up after something between minutes and hours depending on load using iperf3 I have concluded this is necessary to stabilize the hardware. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408-gemini-ethernet-tso-always-v1-1-e669f932359c@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-03-27T04:48:21Z

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock (IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls) - Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock. - Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked) in BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance. - Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy Rx via io_uring. - Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%. - Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream performance up to 2x. - Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock. Bring an additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution. - Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%. - Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under ping flood. - Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win. - Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly identify network namespaces and their roles. There are up to 4 namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns pointer arguments, interpreted differently based on context. - Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access. - Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout in TCP. - Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches. - Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST. - Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP sockets. - Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin users. - Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack. - Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a module. - Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar to normal bridging. - Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels. - netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name to messages as metadata Driver API: - Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where possible. Improve its handling in phylib. - Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm. - Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself. - Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests. Device drivers: - Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390 - Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver - Add support for SFP module access over SMBus - Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB - Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD platforms - support dumping RoCE queue state for debug - opt into instance locking - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution - ice: support for E830 devices - iavf: add support for Rx timestamping - iavf: opt into instance locking - nVidia/Mellanox: - mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx - mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock - mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes - mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption - AMD/Solarflare: - support FW flashing via devlink - Cisco (enic): - use page pool memory allocator for Rx - enable 32, 64 byte CQEs - get max rx/tx ring size from the device - Meta (fbnic): - support flow steering and RSS configuration - report queue stats - support TCP segmentation - support IRQ coalescing - support ring size configuration - Marvell/Cavium: - support AF_XDP - Wangxun: - support for PTP clock and timestamping - Huawei (hibmcge): - checksum offload - add more statistics - Ethernet virtual: - VirtIO net: - aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96% with 1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs - expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings - Google (gve): - support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format - opt into instance locking - Microsoft vNIC: - support BIG TCP - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused cleanups - enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms - support Sophgo SG2044 - Broadcom switches (b53): - support for BCM53101 - TI: - iep: add perout configuration support - icssg: support XDP - Cadence (macb): - implement BQL - Xilinx (axinet): - support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at runtime - implement BQL - report standard stats - MediaTek: - support phylink managed EEE - Intel: - igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change - RealTek (r8169): - support reading registers of internal PHYs directly - increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126 - Airoha: - support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit - enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB - Tehuti (tn40xx): - support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY - Ethernet PHYs: - support for TJA1102S, TJA1121 - dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection - dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage - support for LEDs on 88q2xxx - CAN: - canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access - flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC - WiFi: - remove cooked monitor support - strict mode for better AP testing - basic EPCS support - OMI RX bandwidth reduction support - batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames - WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw88): - support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU - RealTek (rtw89): - switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work - add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO - improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly - Intel (iwlwifi): - add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations - MediaTek (mt76): - preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k): - continued work on MLO - Silabs (wfx): - Wake-on-WLAN support - Bluetooth: - add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping - hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO - coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor - Bluetooth drivers: - intel: add support to configure TX power - nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7" * tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1681 commits) unix: fix up for "apparmor: add fine grained af_unix mediation" mctp: Fix incorrect tx flow invalidation condition in mctp-i2c net: usb: asix: ax88772: Increase phy_name size net: phy: Introduce PHY_ID_SIZE — minimum size for PHY ID string net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum net: libwx: fix Tx descriptor content for some tunnel packets atm: Fix NULL pointer dereference net: tn40xx: add pci-id of the aqr105-based Tehuti TN4010 cards net: tn40xx: prepare tn40xx driver to find phy of the TN9510 card net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus net: phy: aquantia: add essential functions to aqr105 driver net: phy: aquantia: search for firmware-name in fwnode net: phy: aquantia: add probe function to aqr105 for firmware loading net: phy: Add swnode support to mdiobus_scan gve: add XDP DROP and PASS support for DQ gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting gve: merge packet buffer size fields gve: update GQ RX to use buf_size gve: introduce config-based allocation for XDP gve: remove xdp_xsk_done and xdp_xsk_wakeup statistics ...

net: gro: decouple GRO from the NAPI layer

2025-02-27T13:03:14Z

In fact, these two are not tied closely to each other. The only requirements to GRO are to use it in the BH context and have some sane limits on the packet batches, e.g. NAPI has a limit of its budget (64/8/etc.). Move purely GRO fields into a new structure, &gro_node. Embed it into &napi_struct and adjust all the references. gro_node::cached_napi_id is effectively the same as napi_struct::napi_id, but to be used on GRO hotpath to mark skbs. napi_struct::napi_id is now a fully control path field. Three Ethernet drivers use napi_gro_flush() not really meant to be exported, so move it to and add that include there. napi_gro_receive() is used in more than 100 drivers, keep it in . This does not make GRO ready to use outside of the NAPI context yet. Tested-by: Daniel Xu Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: ethernet: cortina: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()

2025-02-18T09:35:45Z

hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and initializes the timer completely. Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism. Patch was created by using Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ddbeac1e5d81df33e9cccb099f520111cb8ce9c4.1738746872.git.namcao@linutronix.de

net: ethernet: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()

2024-10-04T23:39:56Z

After commit 0edb555a65d1 ("platform: Make platform_driver::remove() return void") .remove() is (again) the right callback to implement for platform drivers. Convert all platform drivers below drivers/net/ethernet to use .remove(), with the eventual goal to drop struct platform_driver::remove_new(). As .remove() and .remove_new() have the same prototypes, conversion is done by just changing the structure member name in the driver initializer. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Link: https://patch.msgid.link/18f7c585a1a8a8ac8b03a2fca7de19bd5c52ac2b.1727949050.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ethernet: cortina: Implement .set_pauseparam()

2024-06-01T23:07:29Z

The Cortina Gemini ethernet can very well set up TX or RX pausing, so add this functionality to the driver in a .set_pauseparam() callback. Essentially just call down to phylib and let phylib deal with this, .adjust_link() will respect the setting from phylib. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529-gemini-phylib-fixes-v4-3-16487ca4c2fe@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ethernet: cortina: Use negotiated TX/RX pause

2024-06-01T23:07:29Z

Instead of directly poking into registers of the PHY, use the existing function to query phylib about this directly. Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529-gemini-phylib-fixes-v4-2-16487ca4c2fe@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ethernet: cortina: Rename adjust link callback

2024-06-01T23:07:29Z

The callback passed to of_phy_get_and_connect() in the Cortina Gemini driver is called "gmac_speed_set" which is archaic, rename it to "gmac_adjust_link" following the pattern of most other drivers. Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529-gemini-phylib-fixes-v4-1-16487ca4c2fe@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ethernet: cortina: Restore TSO support

2024-05-29T09:41:55Z

An earlier commit deleted the TSO support in the Cortina Gemini driver because the driver was confusing gso_size and MTU, probably because what the Linux kernel calls "gso_size" was called "MTU" in the datasheet. Restore the functionality properly reading the gso_size from the skbuff. Tested with iperf3, running a server on a different machine and client on the device with the cortina gemini ethernet: Connecting to host 192.168.1.2, port 5201 60008000.ethernet-port eth0: segment offloading mss = 05ea len=1c8a 60008000.ethernet-port eth0: segment offloading mss = 05ea len=1c8a 60008000.ethernet-port eth0: segment offloading mss = 05ea len=27da 60008000.ethernet-port eth0: segment offloading mss = 05ea len=0b92 60008000.ethernet-port eth0: segment offloading mss = 05ea len=2bda (...) (The hardware MSS 0x05ea here includes the ethernet headers.) If I disable all segment offloading on the receiving host and dump packets using tcpdump -xx like this: ethtool -K enp2s0 gro off gso off tso off tcpdump -xx -i enp2s0 host 192.168.1.136 I get segmented packages such as this when running iperf3: 23:16:54.024139 IP OpenWrt.lan.59168 > Fecusia.targus-getdata1: Flags [.], seq 1486:2934, ack 1, win 4198, options [nop,nop,TS val 3886192908 ecr 3601341877], length 1448 0x0000: fc34 9701 a0c6 14d6 4da8 3c4f 0800 4500 0x0010: 05dc 16a0 4000 4006 9aa1 c0a8 0188 c0a8 0x0020: 0102 e720 1451 ff25 9822 4c52 29cf 8010 0x0030: 1066 ac8c 0000 0101 080a e7a2 990c d6a8 (...) 0x05c0: 5e49 e109 fe8c 4617 5e18 7a82 7eae d647 0x05d0: e8ee ae64 dc88 c897 3f8a 07a4 3a33 6b1b 0x05e0: 3501 a30f 2758 cc44 4b4a Several such packets often follow after each other verifying the segmentation into 0x05a8 (1448) byte packages also on the reveiving end. As can be seen, the ethernet frames are 0x05ea (1514) in size. Performance with iperf3 before this patch: ~15.5 Mbit/s Performance with iperf3 after this patch: ~175 Mbit/s This was running a 60 second test (twice) the best measurement was 179 Mbit/s. For comparison if I run iperf3 with UDP I get around 1.05 Mbit/s both before and after this patch. While this is a gigabit ethernet interface, the CPU is a cheap D-Link DIR-685 router (based on the ARMv5 Faraday FA526 at ~50 MHz), and the software is not supposed to drive traffic, as the device has a DSA chip, so this kind of numbers can be expected. Fixes: ac631873c9e7 ("net: ethernet: cortina: Drop TSO support") Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2024-05-14T17:53:19Z

Merge in late fixes to prepare for the 6.10 net-next PR. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski