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* [PATCH net-next v12 0/4] net: mana: add ethtool private flag for full-page RX buffers
@ 2026-07-11  4:10 Dipayaan Roy
  2026-07-11  4:10 ` [PATCH net-next v12 1/4] net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch Dipayaan Roy
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From: Dipayaan Roy @ 2026-07-11  4:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kys, haiyangz, wei.liu, decui, andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet,
	kuba, pabeni, leon, longli, kotaranov, horms, shradhagupta,
	ssengar, ernis, shirazsaleem, linux-hyperv, netdev, linux-kernel,
	linux-rdma, stephen, jacob.e.keller, dipayanroy, leitao, kees,
	john.fastabend, hawk, bpf, daniel, ast, sdf, yury.norov,
	pavan.chebbi, schakrabarti, gargaditya

On some ARM64 platforms with 4K PAGE_SIZE, utilizing page_pool
fragments for allocation in the RX refill path (~2kB buffer per fragment)
causes 15-20% throughput regression under high connection counts
(>16 TCP streams at 180+ Gbps). Using full-page buffers on these
platforms shows no regression and restores line-rate performance.

This behavior is observed on a single platform; other platforms
perform better with page_pool fragments, indicating this is not a
page_pool issue but platform-specific.

This series adds an ethtool private flag "full-page-rx" to let the
user opt in to one RX buffer per page:

  ethtool --set-priv-flags eth0 full-page-rx on

There is no behavioral change by default. The flag can be persisted
via udev rule for affected platforms.

Patches 2 and 4 harden the detach/attach path so that ethtool
operations (ring size, channel count, priv-flags) can recover the
port via the queue_reset_work handler when mana_attach() fails,
instead of leaving the port permanently dead.

This series depends on the following fixes now merged in net-next:
  commit 17bfe0a8c014 ("net: mana: Add NULL guards in teardown path to prevent panic on attach failure")
  commit 5b05aa36ee24 ("net: mana: Skip redundant detach on already-detached port")

Changes in v12:
  - Added patch 2 to ensure mana_detach() always completes its full
    teardown even if mana_dealloc_queues() fails, keeping port state
    consistent for recovery.
  - Added patch 4 to schedule queue_reset_work when mana_attach()
    fails during ethtool ring size or channel count changes, with
    fallback values that maximize recovery chances.
Changes in v11:
  - Rebased on net-next
Changes in v10:
  - Rebased on net-next which now includes the prerequisite fixes.
  - Recovery logic in mana_set_priv_flags() leverages the idempotent
    mana_detach() from the merged fixes.
Changes in v9:
  - Added correct tree.
Changes in v8:
  - Fixed queue_reset_work recovery by restoring port_is_up before
    scheduling reset so the handler can properly re-attach.
  - Simplified "err && schedule_port_reset" to "schedule_port_reset".
Changes in v7:
  - Rebased onto net-next.
  - Retained private flag approach after David Wei's testing on
    Grace (ARM64) confirmed that fragment mode outperforms
    full-page mode on other platforms, validating this is a
    single-platform workaround rather than a generic issue.
Changes in v6:
  - Added missed maintainers.
Changes in v5:
  - Split prep refactor into separate patch (patch 1/2)
Changes in v4:
  - Dropping the smbios string parsing and add ethtool priv flag
    to reconfigure the queues with full page rx buffers.
Changes in v3:
  - changed u8* to char*
Changes in v2:
  - separate reading string index and the string, remove inline.

Dipayaan Roy (4):
  net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to
    use switch
  net: mana: do not bail out of mana_detach on dealloc failure
  net: mana: force full-page RX buffers via ethtool private flag
  net: mana: recover port on attach failure in ethtool operations

 drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c |  26 +-
 .../ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c    | 223 +++++++++++++++---
 include/net/mana/mana.h                       |   8 +
 3 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.0


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