Merge branch 'netkit-support-for-io_uring-zero-copy-and-af_xdp'

Daniel Borkmann says:

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netkit: Support for io_uring zero-copy and AF_XDP

Containers use virtual netdevs to route traffic from a physical netdev
in the host namespace. They do not have access to the physical netdev
in the host and thus can't use memory providers or AF_XDP that require
reconfiguring/restarting queues in the physical netdev.

This patchset adds the concept of queue leasing to virtual netdevs that
allow containers to use memory providers and AF_XDP at native speed.
Leased queues are bound to a real queue in a physical netdev and act
as a proxy.

Memory providers and AF_XDP operations take an ifindex and queue id,
so containers would pass in an ifindex for a virtual netdev and a queue
id of a leased queue, which then gets proxied to the underlying real
queue.

We have implemented support for this concept in netkit and tested the
latter against Nvidia ConnectX-6 (mlx5) as well as Broadcom BCM957504
(bnxt_en) 100G NICs. For more details see the individual patches.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115082603.219152-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index d99b0fbc1942..4d146c000e21 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3400,11 +3400,17 @@ static inline int dev_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 queue_id)
 int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
 void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head);
 void unregister_netdevice_many(struct list_head *head);
+
 static inline void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, NULL);
 }
 
+static inline bool unregister_netdevice_queued(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	return !list_empty(&dev->unreg_list);
+}
+
 int netdev_refcnt_read(const struct net_device *dev);
 void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);