From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v9 7/7] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:10:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260910171131.2532487-8-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910171131.2532487-1-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.
The pfifo_fast beyond_hw_horizon testcase expects a failure because
the packet exceeds the hardware horizon and is transmitted immediately,
violating receiver arrival bounds. On slow machines (KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW),
timing variance errors are suppressed by the receiver, so relax the
failure expectation only for this timing-sensitive case while preserving
deterministic checks for other tests (such as ETF invalid txtime).
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
Changes
v8 -> v9
- scope expect_fail relaxation to timing_sensitive tests
- move beyond_hw_horizon slow machine rationale into commit message
- update to pacing-offload (boolean enable)
v7 -> v8
- simplify "not a == b" test to "a != b" (ruff)
v5 -> v6
- do not suppress tx failures on expected failure:
all expect the receiver process to signal failure
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 | 80 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
index 9ebe9f91227c..5bb15498da30 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);
}
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ 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 a097fae0b335..66a87205e02d 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ 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 CmdExitFailure
+from lib.py import CmdExitFailure, RtnlFamily, NlError
+_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS = 50
-def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
+def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success,
+ timing_sensitive=False):
"""Main function. Run so_txtime as sender and receiver."""
slow_machine = os.environ.get('KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW')
@@ -33,12 +35,42 @@ def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
expect_fail = not expect_success
if slow_machine:
expect_success = False
+ if timing_sensitive:
+ expect_fail = None
with bkg(cmd_rx, host=cfg.remote, fail=expect_success,
expect_fail=expect_fail, exit_wait=True):
cmd(cmd_tx)
+def _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg):
+ """Configure pacing-offload."""
+ 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' not in link or \
+ 'max-pacing-offload-horizon' not in link:
+ raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload 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_offload = link['pacing-offload']
+ rtnl.setlink({
+ 'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+ 'pacing-offload': 1,
+ })
+ defer(rtnl.setlink, {
+ 'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+ 'pacing-offload': cur_offload
+ })
+
+
def _qdisc_setup(ifname, qdisc, optargs=""):
"""Replace root qdisc. Restore the original after the test.
@@ -61,6 +93,7 @@ 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])
@@ -74,6 +107,41 @@ 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 = args_tx != "a,70"
+ timing_sensitive = not expect_pass
+ test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"-H {args_tx}", args_rx, expect_pass,
+ timing_sensitive=timing_sensitive)
+
+
@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."""
@@ -123,7 +191,13 @@ 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()
--
2.55.0.1007.g17ff1f9808-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 17:10 [PATCH net-next v9 0/7] hardware pacing offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` [PATCH net-next v9 1/7] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload attribute to net_device Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-11 17:13 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-12 0:25 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` [PATCH net-next v9 2/7] net_sched: sch_fq: check device pacing offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-11 17:13 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-12 0:33 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` [PATCH net-next v9 3/7] net_sched: sch_fq: clear past skb->tstamp if offloading pacing Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-11 17:13 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-12 0:36 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` [PATCH net-next v9 4/7] idpf: support pacing offload Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-11 17:13 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-12 0:46 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` [PATCH net-next v9 5/7] selftests: drv-net: refactor so_txtime errqueue handling Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` [PATCH net-next v9 6/7] selftests: drv-net: in so_txtime tell apart sw from hw pacing Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-11 17:13 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-12 0:47 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-10 17:10 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-09-11 17:13 ` [PATCH net-next v9 7/7] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-12 0:57 ` Willem de Bruijn
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