From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
joshua.a.hay@intel.com, przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload_horizon attribute to net_device
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 19:25:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260806232913.4020403-2-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806232913.4020403-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
The 'max_pacing_offload_horizon' field of 'struct net_device' represents
the maximum pacing offload horizon supported by the device.
Add a new field 'pacing_offload_horizon' to store the active pacing
offload horizon.
The new attribute is initialized to 0 (disabled) and can be set from
userspace via RTM_SETLINK up to dev->max_pacing_offload_horizon. This
new default off behavior does not cause regressions, as no driver yet
advertises max_pacing_offload_horizon.
The equivalent RTM_NEWLINK is absent, as a value may need to be
compared to a device maximum, which may be negotiated with the device
firmware on init, as is the case for the idpf driver in this series.
Make both fields u32, to maintain net_device cacheline layout. This
expresses up to 4s of pacing offload, which is sufficient.
Update the YNL specification ('rt-link.yaml') to add the
'pacing-offload-horizon' attribute and include it in link-all-attrs.
Both fields can be read with
python3 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py \
--spec Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml \
--do getlink \
--json '{"ifname": "eth0"}' | grep pacing
And the active horizon set with
python3 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py \
--spec Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml \
--do setlink \
--json '{"ifname": "eth0", "pacing-offload-horizon": 50000000}'
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml | 6 ++++++
.../networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst | 3 ++-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 +++-
include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 +
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml
index 68c26a70bb64..a620135baba3 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml
@@ -1080,6 +1080,10 @@ attribute-sets:
-
name: tailroom
type: u16
+ -
+ name: pacing-offload-horizon
+ type: uint
+ doc: EDT offload horizon setting for the device (in nsec).
-
name: prop-list-link-attrs
subset-of: link-attrs
@@ -2548,6 +2552,8 @@ operations:
- devlink-port
- gso-ipv4-max-size
- gro-ipv4-max-size
+ - max-pacing-offload-horizon
+ - pacing-offload-horizon
dump:
request:
value: 18
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
index 512f6d6fa3d8..90e257e815b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ struct devlink_port* devlink_port
struct dpll_pin* dpll_pin
struct hlist_head page_pools
struct dim_irq_moder* irq_moder
-u64 max_pacing_offload_horizon
+u32 max_pacing_offload_horizon
+u32 pacing_offload_horizon
struct_napi_config* napi_config
unsigned_long gro_flush_timeout
u32 napi_defer_hard_irqs
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 62cfad7e6b79..93d953caae94 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2131,6 +2131,7 @@ enum netdev_reg_state {
* where the clock is recovered.
*
* @max_pacing_offload_horizon: max EDT offload horizon in nsec.
+ * @pacing_offload_horizon: EDT offload horizon setting in nsec.
* @napi_config: An array of napi_config structures containing per-NAPI
* settings.
* @num_napi_configs: number of allocated NAPI config structs,
@@ -2553,7 +2554,8 @@ struct net_device {
/** @irq_moder: dim parameters used if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DIMLIB). */
struct dim_irq_moder *irq_moder;
- u64 max_pacing_offload_horizon;
+ u32 max_pacing_offload_horizon;
+ u32 pacing_offload_horizon;
struct napi_config *napi_config;
u32 num_napi_configs;
u32 napi_defer_hard_irqs;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index 43cecca49f01..7c1d7754a670 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ enum {
IFLA_NETNS_IMMUTABLE,
IFLA_HEADROOM,
IFLA_TAILROOM,
+ IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON,
__IFLA_MAX
};
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 31c65a545a10..b8c35f64d49f 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct net_device *dev,
+ rtnl_devlink_port_size(dev)
+ rtnl_dpll_pin_size()
+ nla_total_size(8) /* IFLA_MAX_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON */
+ + nla_total_size(8) /* IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON */
+ nla_total_size(2) /* IFLA_HEADROOM */
+ nla_total_size(2) /* IFLA_TAILROOM */
+ rtnl_dev_parent_size(dev)
@@ -2156,6 +2157,8 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
READ_ONCE(dev->tso_max_segs)) ||
nla_put_uint(skb, IFLA_MAX_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON,
READ_ONCE(dev->max_pacing_offload_horizon)) ||
+ nla_put_uint(skb, IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON,
+ READ_ONCE(dev->pacing_offload_horizon)) ||
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES,
READ_ONCE(dev->num_rx_queues)) ||
@@ -2324,9 +2327,11 @@ static const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
[IFLA_ALLMULTI] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_GSO_IPV4_MAX_SIZE] = NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 1),
[IFLA_GRO_IPV4_MAX_SIZE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [IFLA_MAX_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_NETNS_IMMUTABLE] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_HEADROOM] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_TAILROOM] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
+ [IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON] = { .type = NLA_UINT },
};
static const struct nla_policy ifla_info_policy[IFLA_INFO_MAX+1] = {
@@ -2800,6 +2805,13 @@ static int validate_linkmsg(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON] &&
+ nla_get_uint(tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON]) >
+ dev->max_pacing_offload_horizon) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "too big pacing_offload_horizon");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if (tb[IFLA_AF_SPEC]) {
struct nlattr *af;
int rem, err;
@@ -3317,6 +3329,15 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
}
}
+ if (tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON]) {
+ u64 horizon = nla_get_uint(tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON]);
+
+ if (dev->pacing_offload_horizon ^ horizon) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(dev->pacing_offload_horizon, horizon);
+ status |= DO_SETLINK_MODIFIED;
+ }
+ }
+
if (tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE])
set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));
--
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
joshua.a.hay@intel.com, przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload_horizon attribute to net_device
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 19:25:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260806232913.4020403-2-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806232913.4020403-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
The 'max_pacing_offload_horizon' field of 'struct net_device' represents
the maximum pacing offload horizon supported by the device.
Add a new field 'pacing_offload_horizon' to store the active pacing
offload horizon.
The new attribute is initialized to 0 (disabled) and can be set from
userspace via RTM_SETLINK up to dev->max_pacing_offload_horizon. This
new default off behavior does not cause regressions, as no driver yet
advertises max_pacing_offload_horizon.
The equivalent RTM_NEWLINK is absent, as a value may need to be
compared to a device maximum, which may be negotiated with the device
firmware on init, as is the case for the idpf driver in this series.
Make both fields u32, to maintain net_device cacheline layout. This
expresses up to 4s of pacing offload, which is sufficient.
Update the YNL specification ('rt-link.yaml') to add the
'pacing-offload-horizon' attribute and include it in link-all-attrs.
Both fields can be read with
python3 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py \
--spec Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml \
--do getlink \
--json '{"ifname": "eth0"}' | grep pacing
And the active horizon set with
python3 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py \
--spec Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml \
--do setlink \
--json '{"ifname": "eth0", "pacing-offload-horizon": 50000000}'
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml | 6 ++++++
.../networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst | 3 ++-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 +++-
include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 +
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml
index 68c26a70bb64..a620135baba3 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml
@@ -1080,6 +1080,10 @@ attribute-sets:
-
name: tailroom
type: u16
+ -
+ name: pacing-offload-horizon
+ type: uint
+ doc: EDT offload horizon setting for the device (in nsec).
-
name: prop-list-link-attrs
subset-of: link-attrs
@@ -2548,6 +2552,8 @@ operations:
- devlink-port
- gso-ipv4-max-size
- gro-ipv4-max-size
+ - max-pacing-offload-horizon
+ - pacing-offload-horizon
dump:
request:
value: 18
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
index 512f6d6fa3d8..90e257e815b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ struct devlink_port* devlink_port
struct dpll_pin* dpll_pin
struct hlist_head page_pools
struct dim_irq_moder* irq_moder
-u64 max_pacing_offload_horizon
+u32 max_pacing_offload_horizon
+u32 pacing_offload_horizon
struct_napi_config* napi_config
unsigned_long gro_flush_timeout
u32 napi_defer_hard_irqs
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 62cfad7e6b79..93d953caae94 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2131,6 +2131,7 @@ enum netdev_reg_state {
* where the clock is recovered.
*
* @max_pacing_offload_horizon: max EDT offload horizon in nsec.
+ * @pacing_offload_horizon: EDT offload horizon setting in nsec.
* @napi_config: An array of napi_config structures containing per-NAPI
* settings.
* @num_napi_configs: number of allocated NAPI config structs,
@@ -2553,7 +2554,8 @@ struct net_device {
/** @irq_moder: dim parameters used if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DIMLIB). */
struct dim_irq_moder *irq_moder;
- u64 max_pacing_offload_horizon;
+ u32 max_pacing_offload_horizon;
+ u32 pacing_offload_horizon;
struct napi_config *napi_config;
u32 num_napi_configs;
u32 napi_defer_hard_irqs;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index 43cecca49f01..7c1d7754a670 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ enum {
IFLA_NETNS_IMMUTABLE,
IFLA_HEADROOM,
IFLA_TAILROOM,
+ IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON,
__IFLA_MAX
};
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 31c65a545a10..b8c35f64d49f 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct net_device *dev,
+ rtnl_devlink_port_size(dev)
+ rtnl_dpll_pin_size()
+ nla_total_size(8) /* IFLA_MAX_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON */
+ + nla_total_size(8) /* IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON */
+ nla_total_size(2) /* IFLA_HEADROOM */
+ nla_total_size(2) /* IFLA_TAILROOM */
+ rtnl_dev_parent_size(dev)
@@ -2156,6 +2157,8 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
READ_ONCE(dev->tso_max_segs)) ||
nla_put_uint(skb, IFLA_MAX_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON,
READ_ONCE(dev->max_pacing_offload_horizon)) ||
+ nla_put_uint(skb, IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON,
+ READ_ONCE(dev->pacing_offload_horizon)) ||
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES,
READ_ONCE(dev->num_rx_queues)) ||
@@ -2324,9 +2327,11 @@ static const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
[IFLA_ALLMULTI] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_GSO_IPV4_MAX_SIZE] = NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 1),
[IFLA_GRO_IPV4_MAX_SIZE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [IFLA_MAX_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_NETNS_IMMUTABLE] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_HEADROOM] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
[IFLA_TAILROOM] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
+ [IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON] = { .type = NLA_UINT },
};
static const struct nla_policy ifla_info_policy[IFLA_INFO_MAX+1] = {
@@ -2800,6 +2805,13 @@ static int validate_linkmsg(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON] &&
+ nla_get_uint(tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON]) >
+ dev->max_pacing_offload_horizon) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "too big pacing_offload_horizon");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if (tb[IFLA_AF_SPEC]) {
struct nlattr *af;
int rem, err;
@@ -3317,6 +3329,15 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
}
}
+ if (tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON]) {
+ u64 horizon = nla_get_uint(tb[IFLA_PACING_OFFLOAD_HORIZON]);
+
+ if (dev->pacing_offload_horizon ^ horizon) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(dev->pacing_offload_horizon, horizon);
+ status |= DO_SETLINK_MODIFIED;
+ }
+ }
+
if (tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE])
set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));
--
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 23:25 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 0/6] hardware pacing offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:25 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:25 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-08-06 23:25 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload_horizon attribute to net_device Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:25 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] net_sched: sch_fq: clear past skb->tstamp if offloading pacing Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:25 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 3/6] idpf: support pacing offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 4/6] selftests: drv-net: refactor so_txtime errqueue handling Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 5/6] selftests: drv-net: in so_txtime tell apart sw from hw pacing Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 6/6] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:26 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-07 1:18 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 0/6] hardware pacing offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-07 1:18 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-07 22:39 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-07 22:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-07 23:47 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-07 23:47 ` Willem de Bruijn
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