Commit 6e9530f4 authored by Vladimir Oltean's avatar Vladimir Oltean Committed by David S. Miller

Documentation: networking: dsa: add paragraph for the HSR/PRP offload

Add a short summary of the methods that a driver writer must implement
for offloading a HSR/PRP network interface.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGeorge McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f8f3c20a
......@@ -787,6 +787,38 @@ to work properly. The operations are detailed below.
which MRP PDUs should be trapped to software and which should be autonomously
forwarded.
IEC 62439-3 (HSR/PRP)
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The Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) is a network redundancy protocol which
works by duplicating and sequence numbering packets through two independent L2
networks (which are unaware of the PRP tail tags carried in the packets), and
eliminating the duplicates at the receiver. The High-availability Seamless
Redundancy (HSR) protocol is similar in concept, except all nodes that carry
the redundant traffic are aware of the fact that it is HSR-tagged (because HSR
uses a header with an EtherType of 0x892f) and are physically connected in a
ring topology. Both HSR and PRP use supervision frames for monitoring the
health of the network and for discovery of other nodes.
In Linux, both HSR and PRP are implemented in the hsr driver, which
instantiates a virtual, stackable network interface with two member ports.
The driver only implements the basic roles of DANH (Doubly Attached Node
implementing HSR) and DANP (Doubly Attached Node implementing PRP); the roles
of RedBox and QuadBox are not implemented (therefore, bridging a hsr network
interface with a physical switch port does not produce the expected result).
A driver which is able of offloading certain functions of a DANP or DANH should
declare the corresponding netdev features as indicated by the documentation at
``Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst``. Additionally, the following
methods must be implemented:
- ``port_hsr_join``: function invoked when a given switch port is added to a
DANP/DANH. The driver may return ``-EOPNOTSUPP`` and in this case, DSA will
fall back to a software implementation where all traffic from this port is
sent to the CPU.
- ``port_hsr_leave``: function invoked when a given switch port leaves a
DANP/DANH and returns to normal operation as a standalone port.
TODO
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