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 6/6] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 19:26:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260806232913.4020403-7-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806232913.4020403-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Add two pacing hardware offload variants
1. one that uses FQ to safely offload when within bounds.
2. one that uses pfifo_fast and thus forwards all packets.
Verify that the packets are paced in hardware with new flag '-H'.
Also increase rcvtimeout significantly to reduce flakiness. Especially
for the new beyond_hw_horizon test, which is close to the 100ms limit.
But update recv_verify_empty to take MSG_DONTWAIT. That last empty
check must not delay each testcase by the receive timeout.
Hardware pacing offload can complete packets out of order. So the
reverse_order test is expected to pass with pfifo_fast too.
Do not test ETF, which does not change its dequeue behavior based on
pacing_offload_horizon.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
Changes
v3 -> v4
- replace ethtool with rtnetlink APIs
- expect_fail: correctly handle negative test pfifofast beyond_hw_horizon,
also when KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW suppresses timing errors
- commit-msg: clarify that rcvtimeout increase is also needed for
beyond_hw_horizon test
- define the horizon (50ms) once, rather than three times
- leave cfg.require_ipver in place
v2 -> v3
- remove drivers/net/settings timeout change: superseded by recent commit
- add reverse_order comment
v1 -> v2
- re-raise NlError from e (patchwork pylint)
- simplify expect_pass test (patchwork pylint)
---
.../testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c | 4 +-
.../selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py | 75 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
index 951312e67b66..9028f9e5a411 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static void do_recv_verify_empty(int fdr)
char rbuf[1];
int ret;
- ret = recv(fdr, rbuf, sizeof(rbuf), 0);
+ ret = recv(fdr, rbuf, sizeof(rbuf), MSG_DONTWAIT);
if (ret != -1 || errno != EAGAIN)
error(1, 0, "recv: not empty as expected (%d, %d)", ret, errno);
}
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static int setup_tx(struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen)
static int setup_rx(struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen)
{
- struct timeval tv = { .tv_usec = 100 * 1000 };
+ struct timeval tv = { .tv_usec = 600 * 1000 };
int fd;
fd = socket(addr->sa_family, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
index adf6c848d6d8..24a686eda562 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ import time
from lib.py import ksft_exit, ksft_run, ksft_variants
from lib.py import KsftNamedVariant, KsftSkipEx
from lib.py import NetDrvEpEnv, bkg, cmd, defer, tc
+from lib.py import RtnlFamily, NlError
+_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS = 50
def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
"""Main function. Run so_txtime as sender and receiver."""
@@ -32,10 +34,39 @@ def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
expect_fail = not expect_success
if slow_machine:
expect_success = False
+ expect_fail = None
with bkg(cmd_rx, host=cfg.remote, fail=expect_success,
expect_fail=expect_fail, exit_wait=True):
- cmd(cmd_tx)
+ cmd(cmd_tx, fail=expect_success)
+
+
+def _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg):
+ """Configure pacing-offload-horizon."""
+ rtnl = RtnlFamily()
+
+ try:
+ link = rtnl.getlink({'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex})
+ except NlError as e:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('getlink not supported by device') from e
+
+ if 'pacing-offload-horizon' not in link or \
+ 'max-pacing-offload-horizon' not in link:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload horizon not supported by device')
+
+ horizon = _HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS * 1000_000
+ if link['max-pacing-offload-horizon'] < horizon:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload max horizon too small')
+
+ cur_horizon = link['pacing-offload-horizon']
+ rtnl.setlink({
+ 'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+ 'pacing-offload-horizon': horizon,
+ })
+ defer(rtnl.setlink, {
+ 'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+ 'pacing-offload-horizon': cur_horizon
+ })
def _qdisc_setup(ifname, qdisc, optargs=""):
@@ -56,6 +87,7 @@ def _test_variants_fq():
["one_pkt", "a,10", "a,10"],
["in_order", "a,10,b,20", "a,10,b,20"],
["reverse_order", "a,20,b,10", "b,10,a,20"],
+ ["beyond_hw_horizon", "a,70", "a,70"],
]:
name = f"v{ipver}_{testcase[0]}"
yield KsftNamedVariant(name, ipver, testcase[1], testcase[2])
@@ -69,6 +101,39 @@ def test_so_txtime_fq_mono(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, args_tx, args_rx, True)
+@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
+def test_so_txtime_fq_mono_hw(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
+ """Run all variants of monotonic fq tests, with offload horizon."""
+ cfg.require_ipver(ipver)
+ cfg.require_nsim(nsim_test=False)
+
+ _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg)
+ try:
+ _qdisc_setup(cfg.ifname, "fq", f"offload_horizon {_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS}ms")
+ except Exception as e:
+ raise KsftSkipEx("netdev does not support offload. skipping") from e
+
+ # Expect all tests to use only hw pacing, except beyond_hw_horizon.
+ # Do not pass -H to that test so that with sw pacing fallback it passes.
+ hw_only = "-H" if args_tx != "a,70" else ""
+ test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"{hw_only} {args_tx}", args_rx, True)
+
+
+@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
+def test_so_txtime_pfifofast_mono_hw(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
+ """Run all variants of monotonic tests, without fq pacing sw backup."""
+ cfg.require_ipver(ipver)
+ cfg.require_nsim(nsim_test=False)
+
+ _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg)
+ _qdisc_setup(cfg.ifname, "pfifo_fast")
+
+ # Expect all tests to pass, except beyond_hw_horizon without sw fallback.
+ # It will send immediately, failing the receiver arrival bounds check.
+ expect_pass = not args_tx == "a,70"
+ test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"-H {args_tx}", args_rx, expect_pass)
+
+
@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
def test_so_txtime_fq_tai(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
"""Run all variants of fq tests, but pass CLOCK_TAI to test conversion."""
@@ -108,7 +173,13 @@ def main() -> None:
"""Boilerplate ksft main."""
with NetDrvEpEnv(__file__) as cfg:
ksft_run(
- [test_so_txtime_fq_mono, test_so_txtime_fq_tai, test_so_txtime_etf],
+ [
+ test_so_txtime_fq_mono,
+ test_so_txtime_fq_mono_hw,
+ test_so_txtime_pfifofast_mono_hw,
+ test_so_txtime_fq_tai,
+ test_so_txtime_etf,
+ ],
args=(cfg,),
)
ksft_exit()
--
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 6/6] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 19:26:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260806232913.4020403-7-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806232913.4020403-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Add two pacing hardware offload variants
1. one that uses FQ to safely offload when within bounds.
2. one that uses pfifo_fast and thus forwards all packets.
Verify that the packets are paced in hardware with new flag '-H'.
Also increase rcvtimeout significantly to reduce flakiness. Especially
for the new beyond_hw_horizon test, which is close to the 100ms limit.
But update recv_verify_empty to take MSG_DONTWAIT. That last empty
check must not delay each testcase by the receive timeout.
Hardware pacing offload can complete packets out of order. So the
reverse_order test is expected to pass with pfifo_fast too.
Do not test ETF, which does not change its dequeue behavior based on
pacing_offload_horizon.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
Changes
v3 -> v4
- replace ethtool with rtnetlink APIs
- expect_fail: correctly handle negative test pfifofast beyond_hw_horizon,
also when KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW suppresses timing errors
- commit-msg: clarify that rcvtimeout increase is also needed for
beyond_hw_horizon test
- define the horizon (50ms) once, rather than three times
- leave cfg.require_ipver in place
v2 -> v3
- remove drivers/net/settings timeout change: superseded by recent commit
- add reverse_order comment
v1 -> v2
- re-raise NlError from e (patchwork pylint)
- simplify expect_pass test (patchwork pylint)
---
.../testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c | 4 +-
.../selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py | 75 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
index 951312e67b66..9028f9e5a411 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static void do_recv_verify_empty(int fdr)
char rbuf[1];
int ret;
- ret = recv(fdr, rbuf, sizeof(rbuf), 0);
+ ret = recv(fdr, rbuf, sizeof(rbuf), MSG_DONTWAIT);
if (ret != -1 || errno != EAGAIN)
error(1, 0, "recv: not empty as expected (%d, %d)", ret, errno);
}
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static int setup_tx(struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen)
static int setup_rx(struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen)
{
- struct timeval tv = { .tv_usec = 100 * 1000 };
+ struct timeval tv = { .tv_usec = 600 * 1000 };
int fd;
fd = socket(addr->sa_family, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
index adf6c848d6d8..24a686eda562 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ import time
from lib.py import ksft_exit, ksft_run, ksft_variants
from lib.py import KsftNamedVariant, KsftSkipEx
from lib.py import NetDrvEpEnv, bkg, cmd, defer, tc
+from lib.py import RtnlFamily, NlError
+_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS = 50
def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
"""Main function. Run so_txtime as sender and receiver."""
@@ -32,10 +34,39 @@ def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
expect_fail = not expect_success
if slow_machine:
expect_success = False
+ expect_fail = None
with bkg(cmd_rx, host=cfg.remote, fail=expect_success,
expect_fail=expect_fail, exit_wait=True):
- cmd(cmd_tx)
+ cmd(cmd_tx, fail=expect_success)
+
+
+def _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg):
+ """Configure pacing-offload-horizon."""
+ rtnl = RtnlFamily()
+
+ try:
+ link = rtnl.getlink({'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex})
+ except NlError as e:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('getlink not supported by device') from e
+
+ if 'pacing-offload-horizon' not in link or \
+ 'max-pacing-offload-horizon' not in link:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload horizon not supported by device')
+
+ horizon = _HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS * 1000_000
+ if link['max-pacing-offload-horizon'] < horizon:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload max horizon too small')
+
+ cur_horizon = link['pacing-offload-horizon']
+ rtnl.setlink({
+ 'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+ 'pacing-offload-horizon': horizon,
+ })
+ defer(rtnl.setlink, {
+ 'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+ 'pacing-offload-horizon': cur_horizon
+ })
def _qdisc_setup(ifname, qdisc, optargs=""):
@@ -56,6 +87,7 @@ def _test_variants_fq():
["one_pkt", "a,10", "a,10"],
["in_order", "a,10,b,20", "a,10,b,20"],
["reverse_order", "a,20,b,10", "b,10,a,20"],
+ ["beyond_hw_horizon", "a,70", "a,70"],
]:
name = f"v{ipver}_{testcase[0]}"
yield KsftNamedVariant(name, ipver, testcase[1], testcase[2])
@@ -69,6 +101,39 @@ def test_so_txtime_fq_mono(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, args_tx, args_rx, True)
+@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
+def test_so_txtime_fq_mono_hw(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
+ """Run all variants of monotonic fq tests, with offload horizon."""
+ cfg.require_ipver(ipver)
+ cfg.require_nsim(nsim_test=False)
+
+ _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg)
+ try:
+ _qdisc_setup(cfg.ifname, "fq", f"offload_horizon {_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS}ms")
+ except Exception as e:
+ raise KsftSkipEx("netdev does not support offload. skipping") from e
+
+ # Expect all tests to use only hw pacing, except beyond_hw_horizon.
+ # Do not pass -H to that test so that with sw pacing fallback it passes.
+ hw_only = "-H" if args_tx != "a,70" else ""
+ test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"{hw_only} {args_tx}", args_rx, True)
+
+
+@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
+def test_so_txtime_pfifofast_mono_hw(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
+ """Run all variants of monotonic tests, without fq pacing sw backup."""
+ cfg.require_ipver(ipver)
+ cfg.require_nsim(nsim_test=False)
+
+ _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg)
+ _qdisc_setup(cfg.ifname, "pfifo_fast")
+
+ # Expect all tests to pass, except beyond_hw_horizon without sw fallback.
+ # It will send immediately, failing the receiver arrival bounds check.
+ expect_pass = not args_tx == "a,70"
+ test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"-H {args_tx}", args_rx, expect_pass)
+
+
@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
def test_so_txtime_fq_tai(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
"""Run all variants of fq tests, but pass CLOCK_TAI to test conversion."""
@@ -108,7 +173,13 @@ def main() -> None:
"""Boilerplate ksft main."""
with NetDrvEpEnv(__file__) as cfg:
ksft_run(
- [test_so_txtime_fq_mono, test_so_txtime_fq_tai, test_so_txtime_etf],
+ [
+ test_so_txtime_fq_mono,
+ test_so_txtime_fq_mono_hw,
+ test_so_txtime_pfifofast_mono_hw,
+ test_so_txtime_fq_tai,
+ test_so_txtime_etf,
+ ],
args=(cfg,),
)
ksft_exit()
--
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 23:29 UTC|newest]
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 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload_horizon attribute to net_device Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-06 23:25 ` 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 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-08-06 23:26 ` [PATCH net-next v4 6/6] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload 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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