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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/tipc.rst b/Documentation/networking/tipc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ab63d298c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/tipc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,215 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================= +Linux Kernel TIPC +================= + +Introduction +============ + +TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol that is specially +designed for intra-cluster communication. It can be configured to transmit +messages either on UDP or directly across Ethernet. Message delivery is +sequence guaranteed, loss free and flow controlled. Latency times are shorter +than with any other known protocol, while maximal throughput is comparable to +that of TCP. + +TIPC Features +------------- + +- Cluster wide IPC service + + Have you ever wished you had the convenience of Unix Domain Sockets even when + transmitting data between cluster nodes? Where you yourself determine the + addresses you want to bind to and use? Where you don't have to perform DNS + lookups and worry about IP addresses? Where you don't have to start timers + to monitor the continuous existence of peer sockets? And yet without the + downsides of that socket type, such as the risk of lingering inodes? + + Welcome to the Transparent Inter Process Communication service, TIPC in short, + which gives you all of this, and a lot more. + +- Service Addressing + + A fundamental concept in TIPC is that of Service Addressing which makes it + possible for a programmer to chose his own address, bind it to a server + socket and let client programs use only that address for sending messages. + +- Service Tracking + + A client wanting to wait for the availability of a server, uses the Service + Tracking mechanism to subscribe for binding and unbinding/close events for + sockets with the associated service address. + + The service tracking mechanism can also be used for Cluster Topology Tracking, + i.e., subscribing for availability/non-availability of cluster nodes. + + Likewise, the service tracking mechanism can be used for Cluster Connectivity + Tracking, i.e., subscribing for up/down events for individual links between + cluster nodes. + +- Transmission Modes + + Using a service address, a client can send datagram messages to a server socket. + + Using the same address type, it can establish a connection towards an accepting + server socket. + + It can also use a service address to create and join a Communication Group, + which is the TIPC manifestation of a brokerless message bus. + + Multicast with very good performance and scalability is available both in + datagram mode and in communication group mode. + +- Inter Node Links + + Communication between any two nodes in a cluster is maintained by one or two + Inter Node Links, which both guarantee data traffic integrity and monitor + the peer node's availability. + +- Cluster Scalability + + By applying the Overlapping Ring Monitoring algorithm on the inter node links + it is possible to scale TIPC clusters up to 1000 nodes with a maintained + neighbor failure discovery time of 1-2 seconds. For smaller clusters this + time can be made much shorter. + +- Neighbor Discovery + + Neighbor Node Discovery in the cluster is done by Ethernet broadcast or UDP + multicast, when any of those services are available. If not, configured peer + IP addresses can be used. + +- Configuration + + When running TIPC in single node mode no configuration whatsoever is needed. + When running in cluster mode TIPC must as a minimum be given a node address + (before Linux 4.17) and told which interface to attach to. The "tipc" + configuration tool makes is possible to add and maintain many more + configuration parameters. + +- Performance + + TIPC message transfer latency times are better than in any other known protocol. + Maximal byte throughput for inter-node connections is still somewhat lower than + for TCP, while they are superior for intra-node and inter-container throughput + on the same host. + +- Language Support + + The TIPC user API has support for C, Python, Perl, Ruby, D and Go. + +More Information +---------------- + +- How to set up TIPC: + + http://tipc.io/getting_started.html + +- How to program with TIPC: + + http://tipc.io/programming.html + +- How to contribute to TIPC: + +- http://tipc.io/contacts.html + +- More details about TIPC specification: + + http://tipc.io/protocol.html + + +Implementation +============== + +TIPC is implemented as a kernel module in net/tipc/ directory. + +TIPC Base Types +--------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/subscr.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/bearer.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/name_table.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/name_distr.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/bcast.c + :internal: + +TIPC Bearer Interfaces +---------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/bearer.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/udp_media.c + :internal: + +TIPC Crypto Interfaces +---------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/crypto.c + :internal: + +TIPC Discoverer Interfaces +-------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/discover.c + :internal: + +TIPC Link Interfaces +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/link.c + :internal: + +TIPC msg Interfaces +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/msg.c + :internal: + +TIPC Name Interfaces +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/name_table.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/name_distr.c + :internal: + +TIPC Node Management Interfaces +------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/node.c + :internal: + +TIPC Socket Interfaces +---------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/socket.c + :internal: + +TIPC Network Topology Interfaces +-------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/subscr.c + :internal: + +TIPC Server Interfaces +---------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/topsrv.c + :internal: + +TIPC Trace Interfaces +--------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: net/tipc/trace.c + :internal: |