kernel/linux.git/include/net/netdev_queues.h, branch v7.0-rc7

net: add queue config validation callback

2026-01-23T19:49:02+00:00

I imagine (tm) that as the number of per-queue configuration options grows some of them may conflict for certain drivers. While the drivers can obviously do all the validation locally doing so is fairly inconvenient as the config is fed to drivers piecemeal via different ops (for different params and NIC-wide vs per-queue). Add a centralized callback for validating the queue config in queue ops. The callback gets invoked before memory provider is installed, and in the future should also be called when ring params are modified. The validation is done after each layer of configuration. Since we can't fail MP un-binding we must make sure that the config is valid both before and after MP overrides are applied. This is moot for now since the set of MP and device configs are disjoint. It will matter significantly in the future, so adding it now so that we don't forget.. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122005113.2476634-6-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: use netdev_queue_config() for mp restart

2026-01-23T19:49:02+00:00

We should follow the prepare/commit approach for queue configuration. The qcfg struct should be added to dev->cfg rather than directly to queue objects so that we can clone and discard the pending config easily. Remove the qcfg in struct netdev_rx_queue, and switch remaining callers to netdev_queue_config(). netdev_queue_config() will construct the qcfg on the fly based on device defaults and state of the queue. ndo_default_qcfg becomes optional because having the callback itself does not have any meaningful semantics to us. Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122005113.2476634-5-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: introduce a trivial netdev_queue_config()

2026-01-23T19:49:01+00:00

We may choose to extend or reimplement the logic which renders the per-queue config. The drivers should not poke directly into the queue state. Add a helper for drivers to use when they want to query the config for a specific queue. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122005113.2476634-3-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-queue-rx-buf-len-v9' of https://github.com/isilence/linux

2026-01-21T02:10:04+00:00

Pavel Begunkov says: ==================== Add support for providers with large rx buffer Many modern NICs support configurable receive buffer lengths, and zcrx and memory providers can use buffers larger than 4K to improve performance. When paired with hw-gro larger rx buffer sizes can drastically reduce the number of buffers traversing the stack and save a lot of processing time. It also allows to give to users larger contiguous chunks of data. Single stream benchmarks showed up to ~30% CPU util improvement. E.g. comparison for 4K vs 32K buffers using a 200Gbit NIC: packets=23987040 (MB=2745098), rps=199559 (MB/s=22837) CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %idle 0 1.53 0.00 27.78 2.72 1.31 66.45 0.22 packets=24078368 (MB=2755550), rps=200319 (MB/s=22924) CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %idle 0 0.69 0.00 8.26 31.65 1.83 57.00 0.57 This series adds net infrastructure for memory providers configuring the size and implements it for bnxt. It's an opt-in feature for drivers, they should advertise support for the parameter in the qops and must check if the hardware supports the given size. It's limited to memory providers as it drastically simplifies implementation. It doesn't affect the fast path zcrx uAPI, and the user exposed parameter is defined in zcrx terms, which allows it to be flexible and adjusted in the future. A liburing example can be found at [2] full branch: [1] https://github.com/isilence/linux.git zcrx/large-buffers-v8 Liburing example: [2] https://github.com/isilence/liburing.git zcrx/rx-buf-len * tag 'net-queue-rx-buf-len-v9' of https://github.com/isilence/linux: io_uring/zcrx: document area chunking parameter selftests: iou-zcrx: test large chunk sizes eth: bnxt: support qcfg provided rx page size eth: bnxt: adjust the fill level of agg queues with larger buffers eth: bnxt: store rx buffer size per queue net: pass queue rx page size from memory provider net: add bare bone queue configs net: reduce indent of struct netdev_queue_mgmt_ops members net: memzero mp params when closing a queue ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Revert "Merge branch 'netkit-support-for-io_uring-zero-copy-and-af_xdp'"

2026-01-21T02:06:01+00:00

This reverts commit 77b9c4a438fc66e2ab004c411056b3fb71a54f2c, reversing changes made to 4515ec4ad58a37e70a9e1256c0b993958c9b7497: 931420a2fc36 ("selftests/net: Add netkit container tests") ab771c938d9a ("selftests/net: Make NetDrvContEnv support queue leasing") 6be87fbb2776 ("selftests/net: Add env for container based tests") 61d99ce3dfc2 ("selftests/net: Add bpf skb forwarding program") 920da3634194 ("netkit: Add xsk support for af_xdp applications") eef51113f8af ("netkit: Add netkit notifier to check for unregistering devices") b5ef109d22d4 ("netkit: Implement rtnl_link_ops->alloc and ndo_queue_create") b5c3fa4a0b16 ("netkit: Add single device mode for netkit") 0073d2fd679d ("xsk: Proxy pool management for leased queues") 1ecea95dd3b5 ("xsk: Extend xsk_rcv_check validation") 804bf334d08a ("net: Proxy netdev_queue_get_dma_dev for leased queues") 0caa9a8ddec3 ("net: Proxy net_mp_{open,close}_rxq for leased queues") ff8889ff9107 ("net, ethtool: Disallow leased real rxqs to be resized") 9e2103f36110 ("net: Add lease info to queue-get response") 31127deddef4 ("net: Implement netdev_nl_queue_create_doit") a5546e18f77c ("net: Add queue-create operation") The series will conflict with io_uring work, and the code needs more polish. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Implement netdev_nl_queue_create_doit

2026-01-20T10:58:49+00:00

Implement netdev_nl_queue_create_doit which creates a new rx queue in a virtual netdev and then leases it to a rx queue in a physical netdev. Example with ynl client: # ./pyynl/cli.py \ --spec ~/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml \ --do queue-create \ --json '{"ifindex": 8, "type": "rx", "lease": {"ifindex": 4, "queue": {"type": "rx", "id": 15}}}' {'id': 1} Note that the netdevice locking order is always from the virtual to the physical device. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Co-developed-by: David Wei Signed-off-by: David Wei Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115082603.219152-3-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: Introduce netif_xmit_timeout_ms() helper

2026-01-15T10:55:05+00:00

Introduce a new helper function netif_xmit_timeout_ms() to check if a TX queue is stopped and has timed out and report the timeout duration. This makes the timeout logic reusable, and will be used in several places in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit Reviewed-by: Yael Chemla Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1768209383-1546791-2-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: pass queue rx page size from memory provider

2026-01-14T02:13:36+00:00

Allow memory providers to configure rx queues with a custom receive page size. It's passed in struct pp_memory_provider_params, which is copied into the queue, so it's preserved across queue restarts. Then, it's propagated to the driver in a new queue config parameter. Drivers should explicitly opt into using it by setting QCFG_RX_PAGE_SIZE, in which case they should implement ndo_default_qcfg, validate the size on queue restart and honour the current config in case of a reset. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov

net: add bare bone queue configs

2026-01-14T02:13:36+00:00

We'll need to pass extra parameters when allocating a queue for memory providers. Define a new structure for queue configurations, and pass it to qapi callbacks. It's empty for now, actual parameters will be added in following patches. Configurations should persist across resets, and for that they're default-initialised on device registration and stored in struct netdev_rx_queue. We also add a new qapi callback for defaulting a given config. It must be implemented if a driver wants to use queue configs and is optional otherwise. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov

net: reduce indent of struct netdev_queue_mgmt_ops members

2026-01-14T02:13:36+00:00

Trivial change, reduce the indent. I think the original is copied from real NDOs. It's unnecessarily deep, makes passing struct args problematic. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov