History log of /linux-master/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# dcf0cd1c 09-Feb-2021 George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>

net: hsr: add offloading support

Add support for offloading of HSR/PRP (IEC 62439-3) tag insertion
tag removal, duplicate generation and forwarding.

For HSR, insertion involves the switch adding a 6 byte HSR header after
the 14 byte Ethernet header. For PRP it adds a 6 byte trailer.

Tag removal involves automatically stripping the HSR/PRP header/trailer
in the switch. This is possible when the switch also performs auto
deduplication using the HSR/PRP header/trailer (making it no longer
required).

Forwarding involves automatically forwarding between redundant ports in
an HSR. This is crucial because delay is accumulated as a frame passes
through each node in the ring.

Duplication involves the switch automatically sending a single frame
from the CPU port to both redundant ports. This is required because the
inserted HSR/PRP header/trailer must contain the same sequence number
on the frames sent out both redundant ports.

Export is_hsr_master so DSA can tell them apart from other devices in
dsa_slave_changeupper.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ea5bacaa 30-Apr-2020 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

docs: networking: convert netdev-features.txt to ReST

Not much to be done here:

- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>