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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/x25-iface.rst | 3 |
7 files changed, 72 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst index adc4bf4f3c50..28925e19622d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst @@ -776,10 +776,11 @@ peer_notif_delay Specify the delay, in milliseconds, between each peer notification (gratuitous ARP and unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement) when they are issued after a failover event. - This delay should be a multiple of the link monitor interval - (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). The default - value is 0 which means to match the value of the link monitor - interval. + This delay should be a multiple of the MII link monitor interval + (miimon). + + The valid range is 0 - 300000. The default value is 0, which means + to match the value of the MII link monitor interval. prio Slave priority. A higher number means higher priority. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst index 5ba9015336e2..bfd233cfac35 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Contents - `Drivers`_ - `Basic packet flow`_ - `Devlink health reporters`_ +- `Quality of service`_ Overview ======== @@ -287,3 +288,47 @@ For example:: NIX_AF_ERR: NIX Error Interrupt Reg : 64 Rx on unmapped PF_FUNC + + +Quality of service +================== + + +Hardware algorithms used in scheduling +-------------------------------------- + +octeontx2 silicon and CN10K transmit interface consists of five transmit levels +starting from SMQ/MDQ, TL4 to TL1. Each packet will traverse MDQ, TL4 to TL1 +levels. Each level contains an array of queues to support scheduling and shaping. +The hardware uses the below algorithms depending on the priority of scheduler queues. +once the usercreates tc classes with different priorities, the driver configures +schedulers allocated to the class with specified priority along with rate-limiting +configuration. + +1. Strict Priority + + - Once packets are submitted to MDQ, hardware picks all active MDQs having different priority + using strict priority. + +2. Round Robin + + - Active MDQs having the same priority level are chosen using round robin. + + +Setup HTB offload +----------------- + +1. Enable HW TC offload on the interface:: + + # ethtool -K <interface> hw-tc-offload on + +2. Crate htb root:: + + # tc qdisc add dev <interface> clsact + # tc qdisc replace dev <interface> root handle 1: htb offload + +3. Create tc classes with different priorities:: + + # tc class add dev <interface> parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 10Gbit prio 1 + + # tc class add dev <interface> parent 1: classid 1:2 htb rate 10Gbit prio 7 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index a164ff074356..5b75c3f7a137 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ Contents: udplite vrf vxlan - x25-iface x25 + x25-iface xfrm_device xfrm_proc xfrm_sync diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 6ec06a33688a..3f6d3d5f5626 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -881,9 +881,10 @@ tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value - is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission - with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout - for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. + is 6, which corresponds to 67seconds (with tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4) + till the last retransmission with the current initial RTO of 1second. + With this the final timeout for an active TCP connection attempt + will happen after 131seconds. tcp_timestamps - INTEGER Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323. @@ -946,6 +947,16 @@ tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER Default: 120 +tcp_syn_linear_timeouts - INTEGER + The number of times for an active TCP connection to retransmit SYNs with + a linear backoff timeout before defaulting to an exponential backoff + timeout. This has no effect on SYNACK at the passive TCP side. + + With an initial RTO of 1 and tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4 we would + expect SYN RTOs to be: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, ... (4 linear timeouts, + and the first exponential backoff using 2^0 * initial_RTO). + Default: 4 + tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window can be consumed by a single TSO frame. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst index 8b1045c3b59e..9ca356bc7217 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ nf_conntrack_frag6_high_thresh - INTEGER nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh is reached. nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh - INTEGER + (Obsolete since linux-4.17) default 196608 See nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst index a2817a88e905..6f5ea1646a47 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ fills in a structure that contains the parameters of the request: struct socket *ta_sock; tls_done_func_t ta_done; void *ta_data; + const char *ta_peername; unsigned int ta_timeout_ms; key_serial_t ta_keyring; key_serial_t ta_my_cert; @@ -71,6 +72,10 @@ instantiated a struct file in sock->file. has completed. Further explanation of this function is in the "Handshake Completion" sesction below. +The consumer can provide a NUL-terminated hostname in the @ta_peername +field that is sent as part of ClientHello. If no peername is provided, +the DNS hostname associated with the server's IP address is used instead. + The consumer can fill in the @ta_timeout_ms field to force the servicing handshake agent to exit after a number of milliseconds. This enables the socket to be fully closed once both the kernel and the handshake agent diff --git a/Documentation/networking/x25-iface.rst b/Documentation/networking/x25-iface.rst index f34e9ec64937..285cefcfce87 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/x25-iface.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/x25-iface.rst @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 -============================- X.25 Device Driver Interface -============================- +============================ Version 1.1 |