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| author | Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> | 2026-09-03 10:43:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2026-09-10 18:05:43 -0700 |
| commit | 27600805e62f800bacf990354632eae4e487d34c (patch) | |
| tree | e8aec0ddfaa0bc264d79af632e3de3f1b75ae4c8 /Documentation/networking/multiqueue.rst | |
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x86/amd_node: Fix PCI device reference counting in amd_smn_init()grafted
The local "root" pointer is a temporary variable used during the device
search. Therefore, refcount related to the search iterators should be cleaned
up after the search is complete.
Use the __free() cleanup macro to ensure the refcount is decremented when the
temporary pointer goes out of scope.
Additionally, increment the refcount when caching a root pointer. This ensures
the in-use refcount is separate from the temporary search refcounting.
Finally, drop the redundant "root = NULL" before the second search loop. The
pci_get_class() iterator always decrements the refcount of its "from"
argument, so the first loop can only fall through with "root" already NULL.
Fixes: 0a4b61d9c2e4 ("x86/amd_node: Fix AMD root device caching")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806160159.230453-1-jason.andryuk%40amd.com
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903154325.74343-1-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.rst b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0a576166e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.rst @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================================== +HOWTO for multiqueue network device support +=========================================== + +Section 1: Base driver requirements for implementing multiqueue support +======================================================================= + +Intro: Kernel support for multiqueue devices +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Kernel support for multiqueue devices is always present. + +Base drivers are required to use the new alloc_etherdev_mq() or +alloc_netdev_mq() functions to allocate the subqueues for the device. The +underlying kernel API will take care of the allocation and deallocation of +the subqueue memory, as well as netdev configuration of where the queues +exist in memory. + +The base driver will also need to manage the queues as it does the global +netdev->queue_lock today. Therefore base drivers should use the +netif_{start|stop|wake}_subqueue() functions to manage each queue while the +device is still operational. netdev->queue_lock is still used when the device +comes online or when it's completely shut down (unregister_netdev(), etc.). + + +Section 2: Qdisc support for multiqueue devices +=============================================== + +Currently two qdiscs are optimized for multiqueue devices. The first is the +default pfifo_fast qdisc. This qdisc supports one qdisc per hardware queue. +A new round-robin qdisc, sch_multiq also supports multiple hardware queues. The +qdisc is responsible for classifying the skb's and then directing the skb's to +bands and queues based on the value in skb->queue_mapping. Use this field in +the base driver to determine which queue to send the skb to. + +sch_multiq has been added for hardware that wishes to avoid head-of-line +blocking. It will cycle though the bands and verify that the hardware queue +associated with the band is not stopped prior to dequeuing a packet. + +On qdisc load, the number of bands is based on the number of queues on the +hardware. Once the association is made, any skb with skb->queue_mapping set, +will be queued to the band associated with the hardware queue. + + +Section 3: Brief howto using MULTIQ for multiqueue devices +========================================================== + +The userspace command 'tc,' part of the iproute2 package, is used to configure +qdiscs. To add the MULTIQ qdisc to your network device, assuming the device +is called eth0, run the following command:: + + # tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: multiq + +The qdisc will allocate the number of bands to equal the number of queues that +the device reports, and bring the qdisc online. Assuming eth0 has 4 Tx +queues, the band mapping would look like:: + + band 0 => queue 0 + band 1 => queue 1 + band 2 => queue 2 + band 3 => queue 3 + +Traffic will begin flowing through each queue based on either the simple_tx_hash +function or based on netdev->select_queue() if you have it defined. + +The behavior of tc filters remains the same. However a new tc action, +skbedit, has been added. Assuming you wanted to route all traffic to a +specific host, for example 192.168.0.3, through a specific queue you could use +this action and establish a filter such as:: + + tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: protocol ip prio 1 u32 \ + match ip dst 192.168.0.3 \ + action skbedit queue_mapping 3 + +:Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> +:Original Author: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> |
