[PATCH v4 0/9] ENETC driver related changes series

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:48:10 +0530
Gagandeep Singh <g.singh at nxp.com> wrote:

> V4 changes:
>   - Fixed a compilation issue: "txbd may be used uninitialized"
> 
> V3 changes:
>   - Added documentation for all devargs in enetc4.rst.
>   - Fixed kvlist memory leak issue.
> 
> V2 changes:
>   - Fixed an un-used variable compilation issue reported on fedora:43-gcc-minsize
>   - Fixed various AI reported issues:
> 	- Release notes updated for all new devargs
> 	- enect4.ini features doc updated for scattered RX.
> 	- removed Not required RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN.
> 	- Fixed mid-frame mbuf leak in SG case.
> 	- Enabled SG for enetc4 PF also.
> 	- move to calloc from rte_zmalloc in parse_txq_prior().
> 	- added vaidation checks on strdup, strtoul.
> 	- added NC devargs to use cacheable ops conditionally.
> 	- removed dead code like bd_base_p etc.
> 	- Fixed rte_cpu_to_le_16() conversion on flags and combined
> 	  all flags related patches in one patch.
> 	- Fixed memory leak issue due to TXQ priority patch.
>   - There were some false positives, I have ignored them:
> 	Race condition on flags field:
> 		clean_tx_ring only touches HW-completed BDs (next_to_clean→hwci),
> 		never newly-submitted BDs; doorbell hasn't fired yet.
> 	Missing dcbf in clean_tx_ring:
> 		DPDK is single-threaded per queue; TX path always overwrites
> 		flags completely before dcbf.
> 	TX dcbf granularity with wrap:
> 		Safe (AI admits it).
> 	RX refill flush at wrap:
> 		In-loop dcbf at i & mask == 0 already flushes aligned groups;
> 		trailing flush only needed for partial groups.
> 	RX reading before invalidate:
> 		dccivac precedes the read for every group in the loop
> 
> Gagandeep Singh (7):
>   net/enetc: fix TX BD structure
>   net/enetc: fix queue initialization
>   net/enetc: support ESP packet type in packet parsing
>   net/enetc: update random MAC generation code
>   net/enetc: add option to disable VSI messaging
>   net/enetc: add devargs to control VSI-PSI timeout and delay
>   net/enetc4: add cacheable BD ring support with SW cache maintenance
> 
> Vanshika Shukla (2):
>   net/enetc: support scatter-gather
>   net/enetc: set user configurable priority to TX rings
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/enetc4.rst             |  62 +++-
>  doc/guides/nics/features/enetc4.ini    |   1 +
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst |  10 +
>  drivers/net/enetc/base/enetc_hw.h      |  13 +-
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc.h              |  31 +-
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc4_ethdev.c      | 172 ++++++++--
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc4_vf.c          | 206 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc_ethdev.c       |  25 +-
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c         | 430 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  9 files changed, 831 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
> 

Applied to net-next with minor rewording of git commit message
to conform with check-git-log requirements.