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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. 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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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..435dce5fa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,393 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +============================================= +Chelsio N210 10Gb Ethernet Network Controller +============================================= + +Driver Release Notes for Linux + +Version 2.1.1 + +June 20, 2005 + +.. Contents + + INTRODUCTION + FEATURES + PERFORMANCE + DRIVER MESSAGES + KNOWN ISSUES + SUPPORT + + +Introduction +============ + + This document describes the Linux driver for Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet Network + Controller. This driver supports the Chelsio N210 NIC and is backward + compatible with the Chelsio N110 model 10Gb NICs. + + +Features +======== + +Adaptive Interrupts (adaptive-rx) +--------------------------------- + + This feature provides an adaptive algorithm that adjusts the interrupt + coalescing parameters, allowing the driver to dynamically adapt the latency + settings to achieve the highest performance during various types of network + load. + + The interface used to control this feature is ethtool. Please see the + ethtool manpage for additional usage information. + + By default, adaptive-rx is disabled. + To enable adaptive-rx:: + + ethtool -C <interface> adaptive-rx on + + To disable adaptive-rx, use ethtool:: + + ethtool -C <interface> adaptive-rx off + + After disabling adaptive-rx, the timer latency value will be set to 50us. + You may set the timer latency after disabling adaptive-rx:: + + ethtool -C <interface> rx-usecs <microseconds> + + An example to set the timer latency value to 100us on eth0:: + + ethtool -C eth0 rx-usecs 100 + + You may also provide a timer latency value while disabling adaptive-rx:: + + ethtool -C <interface> adaptive-rx off rx-usecs <microseconds> + + If adaptive-rx is disabled and a timer latency value is specified, the timer + will be set to the specified value until changed by the user or until + adaptive-rx is enabled. + + To view the status of the adaptive-rx and timer latency values:: + + ethtool -c <interface> + + +TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO) Support +----------------------------------------- + + This feature, also known as "large send", enables a system's protocol stack + to offload portions of outbound TCP processing to a network interface card + thereby reducing system CPU utilization and enhancing performance. + + The interface used to control this feature is ethtool version 1.8 or higher. + Please see the ethtool manpage for additional usage information. + + By default, TSO is enabled. + To disable TSO:: + + ethtool -K <interface> tso off + + To enable TSO:: + + ethtool -K <interface> tso on + + To view the status of TSO:: + + ethtool -k <interface> + + +Performance +=========== + + The following information is provided as an example of how to change system + parameters for "performance tuning" an what value to use. You may or may not + want to change these system parameters, depending on your server/workstation + application. Doing so is not warranted in any way by Chelsio Communications, + and is done at "YOUR OWN RISK". Chelsio will not be held responsible for loss + of data or damage to equipment. + + Your distribution may have a different way of doing things, or you may prefer + a different method. These commands are shown only to provide an example of + what to do and are by no means definitive. + + Making any of the following system changes will only last until you reboot + your system. You may want to write a script that runs at boot-up which + includes the optimal settings for your system. + + Setting PCI Latency Timer:: + + setpci -d 1425:: + +* 0x0c.l=0x0000F800 + + Disabling TCP timestamp:: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0 + + Disabling SACK:: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0 + + Setting large number of incoming connection requests:: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=3000 + + Setting maximum receive socket buffer size:: + + sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=1024000 + + Setting maximum send socket buffer size:: + + sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=1024000 + + Set smp_affinity (on a multiprocessor system) to a single CPU:: + + echo 1 > /proc/irq/<interrupt_number>/smp_affinity + + Setting default receive socket buffer size:: + + sysctl -w net.core.rmem_default=524287 + + Setting default send socket buffer size:: + + sysctl -w net.core.wmem_default=524287 + + Setting maximum option memory buffers:: + + sysctl -w net.core.optmem_max=524287 + + Setting maximum backlog (# of unprocessed packets before kernel drops):: + + sysctl -w net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000 + + Setting TCP read buffers (min/default/max):: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="10000000 10000000 10000000" + + Setting TCP write buffers (min/pressure/max):: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="10000000 10000000 10000000" + + Setting TCP buffer space (min/pressure/max):: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mem="10000000 10000000 10000000" + + TCP window size for single connections: + + The receive buffer (RX_WINDOW) size must be at least as large as the + Bandwidth-Delay Product of the communication link between the sender and + receiver. Due to the variations of RTT, you may want to increase the buffer + size up to 2 times the Bandwidth-Delay Product. Reference page 289 of + "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols" by W. Richard Stevens. + + At 10Gb speeds, use the following formula:: + + RX_WINDOW >= 1.25MBytes * RTT(in milliseconds) + Example for RTT with 100us: RX_WINDOW = (1,250,000 * 0.1) = 125,000 + + RX_WINDOW sizes of 256KB - 512KB should be sufficient. + + Setting the min, max, and default receive buffer (RX_WINDOW) size:: + + sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="<min> <default> <max>" + + TCP window size for multiple connections: + The receive buffer (RX_WINDOW) size may be calculated the same as single + connections, but should be divided by the number of connections. The + smaller window prevents congestion and facilitates better pacing, + especially if/when MAC level flow control does not work well or when it is + not supported on the machine. Experimentation may be necessary to attain + the correct value. This method is provided as a starting point for the + correct receive buffer size. + + Setting the min, max, and default receive buffer (RX_WINDOW) size is + performed in the same manner as single connection. + + +Driver Messages +=============== + + The following messages are the most common messages logged by syslog. These + may be found in /var/log/messages. + + Driver up:: + + Chelsio Network Driver - version 2.1.1 + + NIC detected:: + + eth#: Chelsio N210 1x10GBaseX NIC (rev #), PCIX 133MHz/64-bit + + Link up:: + + eth#: link is up at 10 Gbps, full duplex + + Link down:: + + eth#: link is down + + +Known Issues +============ + + These issues have been identified during testing. The following information + is provided as a workaround to the problem. In some cases, this problem is + inherent to Linux or to a particular Linux Distribution and/or hardware + platform. + + 1. Large number of TCP retransmits on a multiprocessor (SMP) system. + + On a system with multiple CPUs, the interrupt (IRQ) for the network + controller may be bound to more than one CPU. This will cause TCP + retransmits if the packet data were to be split across different CPUs + and re-assembled in a different order than expected. + + To eliminate the TCP retransmits, set smp_affinity on the particular + interrupt to a single CPU. You can locate the interrupt (IRQ) used on + the N110/N210 by using ifconfig:: + + ifconfig <dev_name> | grep Interrupt + + Set the smp_affinity to a single CPU:: + + echo 1 > /proc/irq/<interrupt_number>/smp_affinity + + It is highly suggested that you do not run the irqbalance daemon on your + system, as this will change any smp_affinity setting you have applied. + The irqbalance daemon runs on a 10 second interval and binds interrupts + to the least loaded CPU determined by the daemon. To disable this daemon:: + + chkconfig --level 2345 irqbalance off + + By default, some Linux distributions enable the kernel feature, + irqbalance, which performs the same function as the daemon. To disable + this feature, add the following line to your bootloader:: + + noirqbalance + + Example using the Grub bootloader:: + + title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-27.ELsmp) + root (hd0,0) + kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.ELsmp ro root=/dev/hda3 noirqbalance + initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.ELsmp.img + + 2. After running insmod, the driver is loaded and the incorrect network + interface is brought up without running ifup. + + When using 2.4.x kernels, including RHEL kernels, the Linux kernel + invokes a script named "hotplug". This script is primarily used to + automatically bring up USB devices when they are plugged in, however, + the script also attempts to automatically bring up a network interface + after loading the kernel module. The hotplug script does this by scanning + the ifcfg-eth# config files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, looking + for HWADDR=<mac_address>. + + If the hotplug script does not find the HWADDRR within any of the + ifcfg-eth# files, it will bring up the device with the next available + interface name. If this interface is already configured for a different + network card, your new interface will have incorrect IP address and + network settings. + + To solve this issue, you can add the HWADDR=<mac_address> key to the + interface config file of your network controller. + + To disable this "hotplug" feature, you may add the driver (module name) + to the "blacklist" file located in /etc/hotplug. It has been noted that + this does not work for network devices because the net.agent script + does not use the blacklist file. Simply remove, or rename, the net.agent + script located in /etc/hotplug to disable this feature. + + 3. Transport Protocol (TP) hangs when running heavy multi-connection traffic + on an AMD Opteron system with HyperTransport PCI-X Tunnel chipset. + + If your AMD Opteron system uses the AMD-8131 HyperTransport PCI-X Tunnel + chipset, you may experience the "133-Mhz Mode Split Completion Data + Corruption" bug identified by AMD while using a 133Mhz PCI-X card on the + bus PCI-X bus. + + AMD states, "Under highly specific conditions, the AMD-8131 PCI-X Tunnel + can provide stale data via split completion cycles to a PCI-X card that + is operating at 133 Mhz", causing data corruption. + + AMD's provides three workarounds for this problem, however, Chelsio + recommends the first option for best performance with this bug: + + For 133Mhz secondary bus operation, limit the transaction length and + the number of outstanding transactions, via BIOS configuration + programming of the PCI-X card, to the following: + + Data Length (bytes): 1k + + Total allowed outstanding transactions: 2 + + Please refer to AMD 8131-HT/PCI-X Errata 26310 Rev 3.08 August 2004, + section 56, "133-MHz Mode Split Completion Data Corruption" for more + details with this bug and workarounds suggested by AMD. + + It may be possible to work outside AMD's recommended PCI-X settings, try + increasing the Data Length to 2k bytes for increased performance. If you + have issues with these settings, please revert to the "safe" settings + and duplicate the problem before submitting a bug or asking for support. + + .. note:: + + The default setting on most systems is 8 outstanding transactions + and 2k bytes data length. + + 4. On multiprocessor systems, it has been noted that an application which + is handling 10Gb networking can switch between CPUs causing degraded + and/or unstable performance. + + If running on an SMP system and taking performance measurements, it + is suggested you either run the latest netperf-2.4.0+ or use a binding + tool such as Tim Hockin's procstate utilities (runon) + <http://www.hockin.org/~thockin/procstate/>. + + Binding netserver and netperf (or other applications) to particular + CPUs will have a significant difference in performance measurements. + You may need to experiment which CPU to bind the application to in + order to achieve the best performance for your system. + + If you are developing an application designed for 10Gb networking, + please keep in mind you may want to look at kernel functions + sched_setaffinity & sched_getaffinity to bind your application. + + If you are just running user-space applications such as ftp, telnet, + etc., you may want to try the runon tool provided by Tim Hockin's + procstate utility. You could also try binding the interface to a + particular CPU: runon 0 ifup eth0 + + +Support +======= + + If you have problems with the software or hardware, please contact our + customer support team via email at support@chelsio.com or check our website + at http://www.chelsio.com + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +:: + + Chelsio Communications + 370 San Aleso Ave. + Suite 100 + Sunnyvale, CA 94085 + http://www.chelsio.com + +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as +published by the Free Software Foundation. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + +THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS`` AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED +WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + +Copyright |copy| 2003-2005 Chelsio Communications. All rights reserved. |