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