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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/intel/iavf.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/iavf.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..151af0a8d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/iavf.rst @@ -0,0 +1,331 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + +================================================================= +Linux Base Driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function +================================================================= + +Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function Linux driver. +Copyright(c) 2013-2018 Intel Corporation. + +Contents +======== + +- Overview +- Identifying Your Adapter +- Additional Configurations +- Known Issues/Troubleshooting +- Support + +Overview +======== + +This file describes the iavf Linux Base Driver. This driver was formerly +called i40evf. + +The iavf driver supports the below mentioned virtual function devices and +can only be activated on kernels running the i40e or newer Physical Function +(PF) driver compiled with CONFIG_PCI_IOV. The iavf driver requires +CONFIG_PCI_MSI to be enabled. + +The guest OS loading the iavf driver must support MSI-X interrupts. + +Identifying Your Adapter +======================== + +The driver in this kernel is compatible with devices based on the following: + * Intel(R) XL710 X710 Virtual Function + * Intel(R) X722 Virtual Function + * Intel(R) XXV710 Virtual Function + * Intel(R) Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function + +For the best performance, make sure the latest NVM/FW is installed on your +device. + +For information on how to identify your adapter, and for the latest NVM/FW +images and Intel network drivers, refer to the Intel Support website: +https://www.intel.com/support + + +Additional Features and Configurations +====================================== + +Viewing Link Messages +--------------------- +Link messages will not be displayed to the console if the distribution is +restricting system messages. In order to see network driver link messages on +your console, set dmesg to eight by entering the following:: + + # dmesg -n 8 + +NOTE: + This setting is not saved across reboots. + +ethtool +------- +The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and +diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest ethtool +version is required for this functionality. Download it at: +https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ + +Setting VLAN Tag Stripping +-------------------------- +If you have applications that require Virtual Functions (VFs) to receive +packets with VLAN tags, you can disable VLAN tag stripping for the VF. The +Physical Function (PF) processes requests issued from the VF to enable or +disable VLAN tag stripping. Note that if the PF has assigned a VLAN to a VF, +then requests from that VF to set VLAN tag stripping will be ignored. + +To enable/disable VLAN tag stripping for a VF, issue the following command +from inside the VM in which you are running the VF:: + + # ethtool -K <if_name> rxvlan on/off + +or alternatively:: + + # ethtool --offload <if_name> rxvlan on/off + +Adaptive Virtual Function +------------------------- +Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) allows the virtual function driver, or VF, to +adapt to changing feature sets of the physical function driver (PF) with which +it is associated. This allows system administrators to update a PF without +having to update all the VFs associated with it. All AVFs have a single common +device ID and branding string. + +AVFs have a minimum set of features known as "base mode," but may provide +additional features depending on what features are available in the PF with +which the AVF is associated. The following are base mode features: + +- 4 Queue Pairs (QP) and associated Configuration Status Registers (CSRs) + for Tx/Rx +- i40e descriptors and ring format +- Descriptor write-back completion +- 1 control queue, with i40e descriptors, CSRs and ring format +- 5 MSI-X interrupt vectors and corresponding i40e CSRs +- 1 Interrupt Throttle Rate (ITR) index +- 1 Virtual Station Interface (VSI) per VF +- 1 Traffic Class (TC), TC0 +- Receive Side Scaling (RSS) with 64 entry indirection table and key, + configured through the PF +- 1 unicast MAC address reserved per VF +- 16 MAC address filters for each VF +- Stateless offloads - non-tunneled checksums +- AVF device ID +- HW mailbox is used for VF to PF communications (including on Windows) + +IEEE 802.1ad (QinQ) Support +--------------------------- +The IEEE 802.1ad standard, informally known as QinQ, allows for multiple VLAN +IDs within a single Ethernet frame. VLAN IDs are sometimes referred to as +"tags," and multiple VLAN IDs are thus referred to as a "tag stack." Tag stacks +allow L2 tunneling and the ability to segregate traffic within a particular +VLAN ID, among other uses. + +The following are examples of how to configure 802.1ad (QinQ):: + + # ip link add link eth0 eth0.24 type vlan proto 802.1ad id 24 + # ip link add link eth0.24 eth0.24.371 type vlan proto 802.1Q id 371 + +Where "24" and "371" are example VLAN IDs. + +NOTES: + Receive checksum offloads, cloud filters, and VLAN acceleration are not + supported for 802.1ad (QinQ) packets. + +Application Device Queues (ADq) +------------------------------- +Application Device Queues (ADq) allows you to dedicate one or more queues to a +specific application. This can reduce latency for the specified application, +and allow Tx traffic to be rate limited per application. Follow the steps below +to set ADq. + +Requirements: + +- The sch_mqprio, act_mirred and cls_flower modules must be loaded +- The latest version of iproute2 +- If another driver (for example, DPDK) has set cloud filters, you cannot + enable ADQ +- Depending on the underlying PF device, ADQ cannot be enabled when the + following features are enabled: + + + Data Center Bridging (DCB) + + Multiple Functions per Port (MFP) + + Sideband Filters + +1. Create traffic classes (TCs). Maximum of 8 TCs can be created per interface. +The shaper bw_rlimit parameter is optional. + +Example: Sets up two tcs, tc0 and tc1, with 16 queues each and max tx rate set +to 1Gbit for tc0 and 3Gbit for tc1. + +:: + + tc qdisc add dev <interface> root mqprio num_tc 2 map 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 + queues 16@0 16@16 hw 1 mode channel shaper bw_rlimit min_rate 1Gbit 2Gbit + max_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit + +map: priority mapping for up to 16 priorities to tcs (e.g. map 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 +sets priorities 0-3 to use tc0 and 4-7 to use tc1) + +queues: for each tc, <num queues>@<offset> (e.g. queues 16@0 16@16 assigns +16 queues to tc0 at offset 0 and 16 queues to tc1 at offset 16. Max total +number of queues for all tcs is 64 or number of cores, whichever is lower.) + +hw 1 mode channel: ‘channel’ with ‘hw’ set to 1 is a new new hardware +offload mode in mqprio that makes full use of the mqprio options, the +TCs, the queue configurations, and the QoS parameters. + +shaper bw_rlimit: for each tc, sets minimum and maximum bandwidth rates. +Totals must be equal or less than port speed. + +For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`` + +NOTE: + Setting up channels via ethtool (ethtool -L) is not supported when the + TCs are configured using mqprio. + +2. Enable HW TC offload on interface:: + + # ethtool -K <interface> hw-tc-offload on + +3. Apply TCs to ingress (RX) flow of interface:: + + # tc qdisc add dev <interface> ingress + +NOTES: + - Run all tc commands from the iproute2 <pathtoiproute2>/tc/ directory + - ADq is not compatible with cloud filters + - Setting up channels via ethtool (ethtool -L) is not supported when the TCs + are configured using mqprio + - You must have iproute2 latest version + - NVM version 6.01 or later is required + - ADq cannot be enabled when any the following features are enabled: Data + Center Bridging (DCB), Multiple Functions per Port (MFP), or Sideband Filters + - If another driver (for example, DPDK) has set cloud filters, you cannot + enable ADq + - Tunnel filters are not supported in ADq. If encapsulated packets do arrive + in non-tunnel mode, filtering will be done on the inner headers. For example, + for VXLAN traffic in non-tunnel mode, PCTYPE is identified as a VXLAN + encapsulated packet, outer headers are ignored. Therefore, inner headers are + matched. + - If a TC filter on a PF matches traffic over a VF (on the PF), that traffic + will be routed to the appropriate queue of the PF, and will not be passed on + the VF. Such traffic will end up getting dropped higher up in the TCP/IP + stack as it does not match PF address data. + - If traffic matches multiple TC filters that point to different TCs, that + traffic will be duplicated and sent to all matching TC queues. The hardware + switch mirrors the packet to a VSI list when multiple filters are matched. + + +Known Issues/Troubleshooting +============================ + +Bonding fails with VFs bound to an Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 700 series device +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +If you bind Virtual Functions (VFs) to an Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 700 +series based device, the VF slaves may fail when they become the active slave. +If the MAC address of the VF is set by the PF (Physical Function) of the +device, when you add a slave, or change the active-backup slave, Linux bonding +tries to sync the backup slave's MAC address to the same MAC address as the +active slave. Linux bonding will fail at this point. This issue will not occur +if the VF's MAC address is not set by the PF. + +Traffic Is Not Being Passed Between VM and Client +------------------------------------------------- +You may not be able to pass traffic between a client system and a +Virtual Machine (VM) running on a separate host if the Virtual Function +(VF, or Virtual NIC) is not in trusted mode and spoof checking is enabled +on the VF. Note that this situation can occur in any combination of client, +host, and guest operating system. For information on how to set the VF to +trusted mode, refer to the section "VLAN Tag Packet Steering" in this +readme document. For information on setting spoof checking, refer to the +section "MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature" in this readme document. + +Do not unload port driver if VF with active VM is bound to it +------------------------------------------------------------- +Do not unload a port's driver if a Virtual Function (VF) with an active Virtual +Machine (VM) is bound to it. Doing so will cause the port to appear to hang. +Once the VM shuts down, or otherwise releases the VF, the command will complete. + +Using four traffic classes fails +-------------------------------- +Do not try to reserve more than three traffic classes in the iavf driver. Doing +so will fail to set any traffic classes and will cause the driver to write +errors to stdout. Use a maximum of three queues to avoid this issue. + +Multiple log error messages on iavf driver removal +-------------------------------------------------- +If you have several VFs and you remove the iavf driver, several instances of +the following log errors are written to the log:: + + Unable to send opcode 2 to PF, err I40E_ERR_QUEUE_EMPTY, aq_err ok + Unable to send the message to VF 2 aq_err 12 + ARQ Overflow Error detected + +Virtual machine does not get link +--------------------------------- +If the virtual machine has more than one virtual port assigned to it, and those +virtual ports are bound to different physical ports, you may not get link on +all of the virtual ports. The following command may work around the issue:: + + # ethtool -r <PF> + +Where <PF> is the PF interface in the host, for example: p5p1. You may need to +run the command more than once to get link on all virtual ports. + +MAC address of Virtual Function changes unexpectedly +---------------------------------------------------- +If a Virtual Function's MAC address is not assigned in the host, then the VF +(virtual function) driver will use a random MAC address. This random MAC +address may change each time the VF driver is reloaded. You can assign a static +MAC address in the host machine. This static MAC address will survive +a VF driver reload. + +Driver Buffer Overflow Fix +-------------------------- +The fix to resolve CVE-2016-8105, referenced in Intel SA-00069 +https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00069.html +is included in this and future versions of the driver. + +Multiple Interfaces on Same Ethernet Broadcast Network +------------------------------------------------------ +Due to the default ARP behavior on Linux, it is not possible to have one system +on two IP networks in the same Ethernet broadcast domain (non-partitioned +switch) behave as expected. All Ethernet interfaces will respond to IP traffic +for any IP address assigned to the system. This results in unbalanced receive +traffic. + +If you have multiple interfaces in a server, either turn on ARP filtering by +entering:: + + # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter + +NOTE: + This setting is not saved across reboots. The configuration change can be + made permanent by adding the following line to the file /etc/sysctl.conf:: + + net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_filter = 1 + +Another alternative is to install the interfaces in separate broadcast domains +(either in different switches or in a switch partitioned to VLANs). + +Rx Page Allocation Errors +------------------------- +'Page allocation failure. order:0' errors may occur under stress. +This is caused by the way the Linux kernel reports this stressed condition. + + +Support +======= +For general information, go to the Intel support website at: + +https://support.intel.com + +or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: + +https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 + +If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported kernel +with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue +to e1000-devel@lists.sf.net |