Advertise netmem Tx support in ice. The only change needed is to set
ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG conditionally, only when skb_frag_is_net_iov() is
false. Otherwise, the Tx buffer type will be ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY and
the driver will skip the DMA unmapping operation.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c   |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c   | 17 +++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
index 25e9091ca309..66601b1b7fec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -3524,6 +3524,7 @@ static void ice_set_ops(struct ice_vsi *vsi)
 
 	netdev->netdev_ops = &ice_netdev_ops;
 	netdev->queue_mgmt_ops = &ice_queue_mgmt_ops;
+	netdev->netmem_tx = true;
 	netdev->udp_tunnel_nic_info = &pf->hw.udp_tunnel_nic;
 	netdev->xdp_metadata_ops = &ice_xdp_md_ops;
 	ice_set_ethtool_ops(netdev);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c
index 41e1606a8222..51ad13c9d7f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static int ice_sf_cfg_netdev(struct ice_dynamic_port *dyn_port,
 	ether_addr_copy(netdev->perm_addr, dyn_port->hw_addr);
 	netdev->netdev_ops = &ice_sf_netdev_ops;
 	netdev->queue_mgmt_ops = &ice_queue_mgmt_ops;
+	netdev->netmem_tx = true;
 	SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT(netdev, devlink_port);
 
 	err = register_netdev(netdev);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
index b6f56cb81f93..e8e1acbd5a7d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
@@ -113,11 +113,17 @@ ice_prgm_fdir_fltr(struct ice_vsi *vsi, struct ice_fltr_desc *fdir_desc,
 static void
 ice_unmap_and_free_tx_buf(struct ice_tx_ring *ring, struct ice_tx_buf *tx_buf)
 {
-	if (tx_buf->type != ICE_TX_BUF_XDP_TX && dma_unmap_len(tx_buf, len))
+	switch (tx_buf->type) {
+	case ICE_TX_BUF_DUMMY:
+	case ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG:
+	case ICE_TX_BUF_SKB:
+	case ICE_TX_BUF_XDP_XMIT:
 		dma_unmap_page(ring->dev,
 			       dma_unmap_addr(tx_buf, dma),
 			       dma_unmap_len(tx_buf, len),
 			       DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+		break;
+	}
 
 	switch (tx_buf->type) {
 	case ICE_TX_BUF_DUMMY:
@@ -337,12 +343,14 @@ static bool ice_clean_tx_irq(struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring, int napi_budget)
 			}
 
 			/* unmap any remaining paged data */
-			if (dma_unmap_len(tx_buf, len)) {
+			if (tx_buf->type != ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY) {
 				dma_unmap_page(tx_ring->dev,
 					       dma_unmap_addr(tx_buf, dma),
 					       dma_unmap_len(tx_buf, len),
 					       DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+
 				dma_unmap_len_set(tx_buf, len, 0);
+				tx_buf->type = ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY;
 			}
 		}
 		ice_trace(clean_tx_irq_unmap_eop, tx_ring, tx_desc, tx_buf);
@@ -1493,7 +1501,8 @@ ice_tx_map(struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring, struct ice_tx_buf *first,
 				       DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 
 		tx_buf = &tx_ring->tx_buf[i];
-		tx_buf->type = ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG;
+		if (!skb_frag_is_net_iov(frag))
+			tx_buf->type = ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG;
 	}
 
 	/* record SW timestamp if HW timestamp is not available */
@@ -2368,7 +2377,7 @@ void ice_clean_ctrl_tx_irq(struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring)
 		}
 
 		/* unmap the data header */
-		if (dma_unmap_len(tx_buf, len))
+		if (tx_buf->type != ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY)
 			dma_unmap_single(tx_ring->dev,
 					 dma_unmap_addr(tx_buf, dma),
 					 dma_unmap_len(tx_buf, len),
-- 
2.52.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org> On Behalf Of Alexander Lobakin
> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2025 7:52 AM
> To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
> Cc: Lobakin, Aleksander <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>; Nguyen, Anthony L <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>; Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>;
> David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>; Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>; Keller, Jacob E
> <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>; Loktionov, Aleksandr <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>; NXNE CNSE OSDT ITP Upstreaming <nxne.cnse.osdt.itp.upstreaming@intel.com>; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2 5/5] ice: add support for transmitting unreadable frags
> 
> Advertise netmem Tx support in ice. The only change needed is to set ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG conditionally, only when skb_frag_is_net_iov() is false. Otherwise, the Tx buffer type will be ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY and the > driver will skip the DMA unmapping operation.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c   |  1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c |  1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c   | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Alexander Nowlin <alexander.nowlin@intel.com>