[PATCH v3 0/6] Intel network drivers enhancements

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 08:06:50AM -0400, Dawid Wesierski wrote:
> This series collects Intel E810 iavf and ice driver enhancements developed
> for the Media Transport Library (MTL) to support high-performance SMPTE
> ST 2110 media streaming workflows.
> 
> The "new code" in this series (specifically the testpmd enhancement in
> patch 6) demonstrates how the standard DPDK buffer-split offload can be
> orchestrated with pinned external-buffer mempools
> (RTE_PKTMBUF_POOL_F_PINNED_EXT_BUF) to achieve this. By pinning mbufs to
> contiguous hugepages, the NIC DMAs RTP payloads directly into application-
> owned memory. This eliminates the need for the header-split.
> 
> Documentation and a concrete configuration example for this workflow are
> included in the testpmd user guide (patch 6/6). The new 'create pinned-rxpool'
> command serves as both a test vehicle and a reference implementation for
> integrators.
> 
> In this series:
> - iavf maximum ring descriptor count to raised 4096 (HW limit).
> - iavf queue rate limit enabled reconfiguration at runtime.
> - Added opt-in "rl_burst_size" ice devarg for tighter packet spacing (jitter reduction).
> - Enabled PTP timestamping for all packets on ice.
> - Added opt-in "no_runtime_queue_setup" iavf devarg to restore strict
>   initialization semantics when required.
> 
> - Dropped the ethdev and net/intel "header-split mbuf callback" API
> - Replaced the out-of-tree approach with a testpmd demonstration (patch 6)
>   of the standard, upstream-preferred pinned-external-buffer workflow.
> - Fixed iavf error propagation and committed-state logic (Stephen Hemminger).
> - Converted the ice scheduler burst reduction and iavf runtime-config
>   disabling into opt-in devargs to preserve default behavior.
> - Updated documentation, commit messages, and .mailmap.
> 
> Dawid Wesierski (1):
>   app/testpmd: add pinned external-buffer Rx pool command
> 
> Marek Kasiewicz (5):
>   net/iavf: increase max ring descriptors to hardware limit
>   net/iavf: allow runtime queue rate limit configuration
>   net/ice: add scheduler rate-limiter burst size devarg
>   net/ice: timestamp all received packets when PTP is enabled
>   net/iavf: disable runtime queue setup capability
> 
Since RC2 is fast approaching, I've taken the first 3 patches of this
series into next-net-intel.

For the remaining 3 patches, the two driver patches need some more
discussion and probably rework. The final patch, for test-pmd, goes in a
different tree (not next-net-intel), so please send it as a separate
standalone patch.

Thanks,
/Bruce