Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"This includes a significant number of low-priority fixes - especially
in the NIC drivers area - that we deferred from the last few RCs in
the previous cycle, which can't be easily outlined in the synopsis
below.
Core & protocols:
- Continue the work on removing rtnl_lock dependencies:
- per-netns ARP and ND neighbour tables, with the default settings
now configurable per netns (inheritance from init_net is
controlled by the new net.core.neigh_inherit_init_net sysctl)
- RCU-protected configuration and rtnl_lock-less fill_info() for
hsr, netkit, sit, vlan and vxlan devices
- per-netns device unregistration for ip tunnel and gre devices
- use the netdev instance lock instead of rtnl_lock when reading
speed and duplex via sysfs
- batch the flushing of uncached routes at device unregistration
time, relieving rtnl_lock contention on netns dismantle.
- Add hardware pacing offload support, admin-controlled via a new
rtnetlink attribute, with sch_fq integration (implemented in idpf).
- Re-segment BIG TCP GSO packets into GSO packets fitting the egress
device limits instead of plain MSS-sized segments, improving
throughput for mixed BIG TCP / non-BIG TCP paths by up to 70%.
- Generate RSS keys that spread flows over all the RX queues; the
previous random keys could leave some queues unused.
- Optimize the bridge VLAN forwarding paths: cache the port-VLAN in
fdb entries and consider only VLAN members when flooding, for ~10%
more Mpps in the fdb forwarding path.
- A few TCP/IP performance improvements aimed at efficient cache
usage and reducing contention.
- Add the TCP ROCCET congestion control, a CUBIC variant aimed at
avoiding bufferbloat in cellular networks.
- Continue the conversion of getsockopt callbacks to sockopt_t.
- Add an ethtool command to list the front-facing ports of an
interface, including SFP cages and modules, using the phy_port
representation.
- Enable BIG TCP support for bareudp tunnels.
- Remove the IPV6_ADDRFORM socket option and disallow buggy TCP state
transitions (listen() + shutdown() + connect() and connect() +
connect(AF_UNSPEC) + listen()).
- Remove most BUG_ON()s from core packet processing, replacing them
with error paths.
Wireless:
- Latency improvements, including lockless station get/dump and
beacon updates, plus RTNL reduction and locking cleanups.
- Infrastructure for non-station TX/RX with MLO.
- NAN (Wi-Fi Aware) Instant Communication support and other NAN
improvements.
- Control frame Integrity Protocol (CIP) and protected TWT support.
- Improvements for AP regulatory checks.
Netfilter:
- Disable br_netfilter in user namespaces and schedule it for removal
in 2027.
- Restrict the raw table in nft_compat to the specific family, hook
and priority.
- Prepare the flowtable for mixed IPv4-over-IPv6 tunneling (and vice
versa).
- Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for most netfilter allocations, for better
integration with memcg.
- Allow discovering conntrack zone filtering support in ctnetlink
dumps, and fix nfnetlink_hook handling of large dumps.
Deletions:
- Move the LLC type 2 sockets out of tree. There are no known users
and the code attracts a never-ending stream of LLM-driven fixes.
Device drivers:
- New drivers:
- Meta Platforms NIC (mpnic), the second-generation NIC from Meta
- initial skeleton of the Nebula-matrix NICs driver (nbl)
- X-Powers AC200/AC300 Fast Ethernet PHYs
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Intel:
- i40e: XDP metadata support for RX hash and VLAN tag
- ice: expose the E825 TSPLL state via the DPLL subsystem
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- move the data direct infrastructure from IB to core, in
preparation for netdev support.
- reduce the memory used per offloaded TC rule
- Meta (fbnic):
- support large io_uring zero-copy RX buffers
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- add BQL support
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Airoha:
- LRO offload support
- Cadence (macb):
- context swapping for ringparam and MTU changes, avoiding
buffer loss under memory pressure
- Mucse (rnpgbe):
- TX/RX and link status support
- NXP (enetc):
- SR-IOV improvements and VF support for ENETC v4
- Qualcomm (ppe):
- IPQ5424 support
- Realtek PCI (r8169):
- phylink support
- RSS support for RTL8127
- Renesas (ravb):
- gPTP support for R-Car Gen4
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- XDP multi-buffer support on the TX side
- tc mqprio hw queue priority offload
- support for RK3568 SGMII, Allwinner H616 EMAC1, UltraRISC
DP1000 and Qualcomm sa8255p
- Ethernet switches:
- Mediatek (mt7530):
- fast age and change conduit support
- Microchip (ksz):
- support for KSZ8995XA/KS8995XA
- Microchip (lan966x):
- PCIe FDMA support, ~20x throughput increase in PCIe endpoint
- Microchip (sparx5):
- Time Aware Shaper (taprio) offload
- Motorcomm (yt921x):
- LED and SerDes PCS support
- Realtek (rtl8365mb):
- EEE support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Broadcom:
- enable jumbo frames on BCM54xx
- Realtek:
- support for RTL8261CE_CG and RTL8261D_VM
- MDIO support for RTL838x and RTL839x
- WiFi drivers:
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- FT/OKC roaming offload
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- UHR sniffer support
- support for newer UEFI/BIOS tables
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7925 NAN improvements
- offchannel/scan improvements and MLO fixes
- Morse Micro (mm81x):
- monitor mode support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- IPQ5332 platform infrastructure
- Realtek (rtw88):
- RTL8723BS support
- SDIO TX performance improvements
- Realtek (rtw89):
- P2P_DEVICE support
- BT-coex updates for RTL8922D
- Bluetooth:
- move H:4 reassembly into the Bluetooth core
- add generic support for vendor packets
- MGMT: add security level changed event
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support Bulk Serialization Mode
- Intel: support Draco and Titan Lake, allow unsigned firmware
- Mediatek: MT7928 support
- Qualcomm: QCC2072 support
- Broadcom: Synaptics 4384 support"
* tag 'net-next-7.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2126 commits)
Bluetooth: btusb: disable by default Qualcomm multi-subsystem
tipc: fix broadcast sender hang on last acker departure
tipc: fix use-after-free of broadcast reception link at node release
r8169: clear TX LPI on RTL8168h at link up after phylink conversion
tun: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to attach to an ownerless device
net/sched/sch_cake: drop dead nla_nest_end() error check
net/sched/sch_cake: widen buffer_used to u64
net/sched/sch_cake: reduce parent backlog when clearing a tin
net/sched/sch_cake: serialize reconfiguration with the datapath
tg3: Add Datto SIRIS 5 1U Server to restart AER quirk table
net/mlx5e: Stop asserting for RTNL when closing channels
net: shrink the payload-only part of skb dataref to one bit
net: wwan: iosm: validate msg_head before indexing msg_ring
net: bgmac: rate limit RX error messages
selftests: net: veth: test XDP_TX to a peer with GRO enabled
veth: schedule the peer's NAPI after XDP_TX when only GRO is enabled
pppoe: delete session hash entries by pointer match
net: lan969x: don't disable hardirqs in fdma tx clear
net: sparx5/lan969x: do not clobber the PSFP cycle timer update period
net: lan969x: fix DSM calendar for empty taxis
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