Merge branch 'bridge-mrp-Add-support-for-interconnect-ring'
Horatiu Vultur says:
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bridge: mrp: Add support for interconnect ring
This patch series extends existing MRP to add support for interconnect ring. An
interconnect ring is a ring that connects 2 rings. In this way is possible to
connect multiple rings. Each interconnect ring is form of 4 nodes, in which 3
have the role MIC(Media Redundancy Interconnect Client) and one has the role
MIM(Media Redundancy Interconnect Manager). All these nodes need to have the
same ID and the ID needs to be unique between multiple interconnect rings. And 2
nodes needs to be part of one ring and the other 2 nodes needs to be part of the
other ring that is connected.
+---------+
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+----------| MRM |---------------+
| | | |
| +---------+ |
| |
| |
| |
+--------------+ +-----------------+
| | | |
| MRC/MIC |------------------| MRC/MIM |
| | | |
+--------------+ +-----------------+
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|Interconnect port |Interconnect port
| |
| |
+--------------+ +-----------------+
| | | |
| MRC/MIC |----------------- | MRC/MIC |
| | | |
+--------------+ +-----------------+
| |
| |
| +---------+ |
| | | |
+----------| MRM |----------------+
| |
+---------+
Each node in a ring needs to have one of the following ring roles, MRM or MRC.
And it can also have an interconnect role like MIM or MIC if it is part of an
interconnect ring. In the figure above the MRM doesn't have any interconnect
role but the MRC from the top ring have the interconnect roles MIC respectively
MIM. Therefore it is not possible for a node to have only an interconnect role.
There are 2 ways for interconnect ring to detect when is open or closed:
1. To use CCM frames on the interconnect port to detect when the interconnect
link goes down/up. This mode is called LC-mode.
2. To send InTest frames on all 3 ports(2 ring ports and 1 interconnect port)
and detect when these frames are received back. This mode is called RC-mode.
This patch series adds support only for RC-mode. Where MIM sends InTest frames
on all 3 ports and detects when it receives back the InTest. When it receives
the InTest it means that the ring is closed so it would set the interconnect
port in blocking state. If it stops receiving the InTest frames then it would
set the port in forwarding state and it would send InTopo frames. These InTopo
frames will be received by MRM nodes and process them. And then the MRM will
send Topo frames in the rings so each client will clear its FDB.
v4:
- always cancel delay work if the MRP instance is deleted or interconnect role
is disabled but allow only to start to send InTest frames only if the role
is MIM.
v3:
- update 'br_mrp_set_in_role' to stop sending test if the role is disabled
and don't allow to set a different interconnect port if there is already
one.
v2:
- rearrange structures not to contain holes
- stop sending MRP_InTest frames when the MRP instance is deleted
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Signed-off-by: 
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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