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    Subject[RFC net-next v3 00/10] net: bridge: mrp: Add support for Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP)
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    Media Redundancy Protocol is a data network protocol standardized by
    International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 62439-2. It allows rings of
    Ethernet switches to overcome any single failure with recovery time faster than
    STP. It is primarily used in Industrial Ethernet applications.

    Based on the previous RFC[1][2], the MRP state machine and all the
    timers were moved to userspace. A generic netlink interface is added to
    allow configuring the HW, and logic added to to implement the MRP
    specific forwarding rules.

    The userspace application that is using the new netlink can be found here[3].

    The current implementation both in kernel and userspace supports only 2 roles:

    MRM - this one is responsible to send MRP_Test and MRP_Topo frames on both
    ring ports. It needs to process MRP_Test to know if the ring is open or
    closed. This operation is desired to be offloaded to the HW because it
    requires to generate and process up to 4000 frames per second. Whenever it
    detects that the ring open it sends MRP_Topo frames to notify all MRC about
    changes in the topology. MRM needs also to process MRP_LinkChange frames,
    these frames are generated by the MRC. When the ring is open the the state
    of both ports is to forward frames and when the ring is closed then the
    secondary port is blocked.

    MRC - this one is responsible to forward MRP frames between the ring ports.
    In case one of the ring ports gets a link down or up, then MRC will generate
    a MRP_LinkChange frames. This node should also process MRP_Topo frames and to
    clear its FDB when it receives this frame.

    Userspace
    Deamon +----------+ Client
    +
    |
    +--------------|-----------------------------------------+
    Kernel |
    + Netlink

    | + Interrupt
    | |
    +--------------|------------------------------|----------+
    HW | Switchdev |
    + |

    The user interacts using the client (called 'mrp'), the client talks to the
    deamon (called 'mrp_server'), which talks with the kernel using netlink. The
    kernel will try to offload the requests to the HW via switchdev API. For this a
    new generic netlink interface was added to the bridge.

    If the kernel cannot offload MRP to HW (maybe it does not have a switchdev
    driver, or it is just not supported), then all the netlink calls will return
    -EOPNOTSUPP. In this case the user-space deamon fallback to SW only
    implementation.

    There are required changes to the SW bridge to be able to run the MRP. First the
    bridge needs to initialize the netlink interface. And second it needs to know if
    a MRP frame was received on a MRP ring port. In case it was received the SW
    bridge should not forward the frame it needs to redirected to upper layes. In
    case it was not received on a ring port then it just forwards it as usual.

    To be able to offload this to the HW, it was required to extend the switchdev
    API.

    If this will be accepted then in the future the netlink interface can be
    expended with multiple attributes which are required by different roles of the
    MRP. Like Media Redundancy Automanager(MRA), Media Interconnect Manager(MIM) and
    Media Interconnect Client(MIC).

    [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg623647.html
    [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg624378.html
    [3] https://github.com/microchip-ung/mrp/tree/patch-v3

    Horatiu Vultur (10):
    net: bridge: mrp: Expose mrp attributes.
    net: bridge: mrp: Expose function br_mrp_port_open
    net: bridge: mrp: Add MRP interface used by netlink
    net: bridge: mrp: Add generic netlink interface to configure MRP
    net: bridge: mrp: Update MRP interface to add switchdev support
    net: bridge: mrp: switchdev: Extend switchdev API to offload MRP
    net: bridge: mrp: switchdev: Implement MRP API for switchdev
    net: bridge: mrp: Connect MRP api with the switchev API
    net: bridge: mrp: Integrate MRP into the bridge
    net: bridge: mrp: Update Kconfig and Makefile

    include/linux/mrp_bridge.h | 25 ++
    include/net/switchdev.h | 51 +++
    include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 1 +
    include/uapi/linux/mrp_bridge.h | 118 ++++++
    net/bridge/Kconfig | 12 +
    net/bridge/Makefile | 2 +
    net/bridge/br.c | 11 +
    net/bridge/br_device.c | 3 +
    net/bridge/br_if.c | 6 +
    net/bridge/br_input.c | 14 +
    net/bridge/br_mrp.c | 193 ++++++++++
    net/bridge/br_mrp_netlink.c | 655 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    net/bridge/br_mrp_switchdev.c | 147 +++++++
    net/bridge/br_private.h | 14 +
    net/bridge/br_private_mrp.h | 58 +++
    15 files changed, 1310 insertions(+)
    create mode 100644 include/linux/mrp_bridge.h
    create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/mrp_bridge.h
    create mode 100644 net/bridge/br_mrp.c
    create mode 100644 net/bridge/br_mrp_netlink.c
    create mode 100644 net/bridge/br_mrp_switchdev.c
    create mode 100644 net/bridge/br_private_mrp.h

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    2.17.1

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