On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:52:37 +0100 Horatiu Vultur wrote: > This patch series extends MRP switchdev to allow the SW to have a better > understanding if the HW can implement the MRP functionality or it needs > to help the HW to run it. There are 3 cases: > - when HW can't implement at all the functionality. > - when HW can implement a part of the functionality but needs the SW > implement the rest. For example if it can't detect when it stops > receiving MRP Test frames but it can copy the MRP frames to CPU to > allow the SW to determine this. Another example is generating the MRP > Test frames. If HW can't do that then the SW is used as backup. > - when HW can implement completely the functionality. > > So, initially the SW tries to offload the entire functionality in HW, if > that fails it tries offload parts of the functionality in HW and use the > SW as helper and if also this fails then MRP can't run on this HW. > > v2: > - fix typos in comments and in commit messages > - remove some of the comments > - move repeated code in helper function > - fix issue when deleting a node when sw_backup was true Folks who were involved in previous MRP conversations - does this look good to you? Anyone planning to test?
