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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ...
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+========
+dm-zoned
+========
+
+The dm-zoned device mapper target exposes a zoned block device (ZBC and
+ZAC compliant devices) as a regular block device without any write
+pattern constraints. In effect, it implements a drive-managed zoned
+block device which hides from the user (a file system or an application
+doing raw block device accesses) the sequential write constraints of
+host-managed zoned block devices and can mitigate the potential
+device-side performance degradation due to excessive random writes on
+host-aware zoned block devices.
+
+For a more detailed description of the zoned block device models and
+their constraints see (for SCSI devices):
+
+https://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#ZBC_Family
+
+and (for ATA devices):
+
+http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2015/di537r05-Zoned_Device_ATA_Command_Set_ZAC.pdf
+
+The dm-zoned implementation is simple and minimizes system overhead (CPU
+and memory usage as well as storage capacity loss). For a 10TB
+host-managed disk with 256 MB zones, dm-zoned memory usage per disk
+instance is at most 4.5 MB and as little as 5 zones will be used
+internally for storing metadata and performing reclaim operations.
+
+dm-zoned target devices are formatted and checked using the dmzadm
+utility available at:
+
+https://github.com/hgst/dm-zoned-tools
+
+Algorithm
+=========
+
+dm-zoned implements an on-disk buffering scheme to handle non-sequential
+write accesses to the sequential zones of a zoned block device.
+Conventional zones are used for caching as well as for storing internal
+metadata. It can also use a regular block device together with the zoned
+block device; in that case the regular block device will be split logically
+in zones with the same size as the zoned block device. These zones will be
+placed in front of the zones from the zoned block device and will be handled
+just like conventional zones.
+
+The zones of the device(s) are separated into 2 types:
+
+1) Metadata zones: these are conventional zones used to store metadata.
+Metadata zones are not reported as useable capacity to the user.
+
+2) Data zones: all remaining zones, the vast majority of which will be
+sequential zones used exclusively to store user data. The conventional
+zones of the device may be used also for buffering user random writes.
+Data in these zones may be directly mapped to the conventional zone, but
+later moved to a sequential zone so that the conventional zone can be
+reused for buffering incoming random writes.
+
+dm-zoned exposes a logical device with a sector size of 4096 bytes,
+irrespective of the physical sector size of the backend zoned block
+device being used. This allows reducing the amount of metadata needed to
+manage valid blocks (blocks written).
+
+The on-disk metadata format is as follows:
+
+1) The first block of the first conventional zone found contains the
+super block which describes the on disk amount and position of metadata
+blocks.
+
+2) Following the super block, a set of blocks is used to describe the
+mapping of the logical device blocks. The mapping is done per chunk of
+blocks, with the chunk size equal to the zoned block device size. The
+mapping table is indexed by chunk number and each mapping entry
+indicates the zone number of the device storing the chunk of data. Each
+mapping entry may also indicate if the zone number of a conventional
+zone used to buffer random modification to the data zone.
+
+3) A set of blocks used to store bitmaps indicating the validity of
+blocks in the data zones follows the mapping table. A valid block is
+defined as a block that was written and not discarded. For a buffered
+data chunk, a block is always valid only in the data zone mapping the
+chunk or in the buffer zone of the chunk.
+
+For a logical chunk mapped to a conventional zone, all write operations
+are processed by directly writing to the zone. If the mapping zone is a
+sequential zone, the write operation is processed directly only if the
+write offset within the logical chunk is equal to the write pointer
+offset within of the sequential data zone (i.e. the write operation is
+aligned on the zone write pointer). Otherwise, write operations are
+processed indirectly using a buffer zone. In that case, an unused
+conventional zone is allocated and assigned to the chunk being
+accessed. Writing a block to the buffer zone of a chunk will
+automatically invalidate the same block in the sequential zone mapping
+the chunk. If all blocks of the sequential zone become invalid, the zone
+is freed and the chunk buffer zone becomes the primary zone mapping the
+chunk, resulting in native random write performance similar to a regular
+block device.
+
+Read operations are processed according to the block validity
+information provided by the bitmaps. Valid blocks are read either from
+the sequential zone mapping a chunk, or if the chunk is buffered, from
+the buffer zone assigned. If the accessed chunk has no mapping, or the
+accessed blocks are invalid, the read buffer is zeroed and the read
+operation terminated.
+
+After some time, the limited number of conventional zones available may
+be exhausted (all used to map chunks or buffer sequential zones) and
+unaligned writes to unbuffered chunks become impossible. To avoid this
+situation, a reclaim process regularly scans used conventional zones and
+tries to reclaim the least recently used zones by copying the valid
+blocks of the buffer zone to a free sequential zone. Once the copy
+completes, the chunk mapping is updated to point to the sequential zone
+and the buffer zone freed for reuse.
+
+Metadata Protection
+===================
+
+To protect metadata against corruption in case of sudden power loss or
+system crash, 2 sets of metadata zones are used. One set, the primary
+set, is used as the main metadata region, while the secondary set is
+used as a staging area. Modified metadata is first written to the
+secondary set and validated by updating the super block in the secondary
+set, a generation counter is used to indicate that this set contains the
+newest metadata. Once this operation completes, in place of metadata
+block updates can be done in the primary metadata set. This ensures that
+one of the set is always consistent (all modifications committed or none
+at all). Flush operations are used as a commit point. Upon reception of
+a flush request, metadata modification activity is temporarily blocked
+(for both incoming BIO processing and reclaim process) and all dirty
+metadata blocks are staged and updated. Normal operation is then
+resumed. Flushing metadata thus only temporarily delays write and
+discard requests. Read requests can be processed concurrently while
+metadata flush is being executed.
+
+If a regular device is used in conjunction with the zoned block device,
+a third set of metadata (without the zone bitmaps) is written to the
+start of the zoned block device. This metadata has a generation counter of
+'0' and will never be updated during normal operation; it just serves for
+identification purposes. The first and second copy of the metadata
+are located at the start of the regular block device.
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+A zoned block device must first be formatted using the dmzadm tool. This
+will analyze the device zone configuration, determine where to place the
+metadata sets on the device and initialize the metadata sets.
+
+Ex::
+
+ dmzadm --format /dev/sdxx
+
+
+If two drives are to be used, both devices must be specified, with the
+regular block device as the first device.
+
+Ex::
+
+ dmzadm --format /dev/sdxx /dev/sdyy
+
+
+Formatted device(s) can be started with the dmzadm utility, too.:
+
+Ex::
+
+ dmzadm --start /dev/sdxx /dev/sdyy
+
+
+Information about the internal layout and current usage of the zones can
+be obtained with the 'status' callback from dmsetup:
+
+Ex::
+
+ dmsetup status /dev/dm-X
+
+will return a line
+
+ 0 <size> zoned <nr_zones> zones <nr_unmap_rnd>/<nr_rnd> random <nr_unmap_seq>/<nr_seq> sequential
+
+where <nr_zones> is the total number of zones, <nr_unmap_rnd> is the number
+of unmapped (ie free) random zones, <nr_rnd> the total number of zones,
+<nr_unmap_seq> the number of unmapped sequential zones, and <nr_seq> the
+total number of sequential zones.
+
+Normally the reclaim process will be started once there are less than 50
+percent free random zones. In order to start the reclaim process manually
+even before reaching this threshold the 'dmsetup message' function can be
+used:
+
+Ex::
+
+ dmsetup message /dev/dm-X 0 reclaim
+
+will start the reclaim process and random zones will be moved to sequential
+zones.