Hi all (series based on v4.7-rc2, now with the correct netdev) This is a *very* early RFC for a TSN-driver in the kernel. It has been floating around in my repo for a while and I would appreciate some feedback on the overall design to avoid doing some major blunders. TSN: Time Sensitive Networking, formely known as AVB (Audio/Video Bridging). There are at least one AVB-driver (the AV-part of TSN) in the kernel already, however this driver aims to solve a wider scope as TSN can do much more than just audio. A very basic ALSA-driver is added to the end that allows you to play music between 2 machines using aplay in one end and arecord | aplay on the other (some fiddling required) We have plans for doing the same for v4l2 eventually (but there are other fishes to fry first). The same goes for a TSN_SOCK type approach as well. TSN is all about providing infrastructure. Allthough there are a few very interesting uses for TSN (reliable, deterministic network for audio and video), once you have that reliable link, you can do a lot more. Some notes on the design: The driver is directed via ConfigFS as we need userspace to handle stream-reservation (MSRP), discovery and enumeration (IEEE 1722.1) and whatever other management is needed. Once we have all the required attributes, we can create link using mkdir, and use write() to set the attributes. Once ready, specify the 'shim' (basically a thin wrapper between TSN and another subsystem) and we start pushing out frames. The network part: it ties directly into the rx-handler for receive and writes skb's using netdev_start_xmit(). This could probably be improved. 2 new fields in netdev_ops have been introduced, and the Intel igb-driver has been updated (as this is available as a PCI-e card). The igb-driver works-ish What remains - tie to (g)PTP properly, currently using ktime_get() for presentation time - get time from shim into TSN and vice versa - let shim create/manage buffer Henrik Austad (8): TSN: add documentation TSN: Add the standard formerly known as AVB to the kernel Adding TSN-driver to Intel I210 controller Add TSN header for the driver Add TSN machinery to drive the traffic from a shim over the network Add TSN event-tracing AVB ALSA - Add ALSA shim for TSN MAINTAINERS: add TSN/AVB-entries Documentation/TSN/tsn.txt | 147 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 14 + drivers/media/Kconfig | 15 + drivers/media/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/media/avb/Makefile | 5 + drivers/media/avb/avb_alsa.c | 742 +++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/media/avb/tsn_iec61883.h | 124 ++++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig | 18 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h | 19 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_tsn.c | 396 ++++++++++++ include/linux/netdevice.h | 32 + include/linux/tsn.h | 806 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/trace/events/tsn.h | 349 +++++++++++ net/Kconfig | 1 + net/Makefile | 1 + net/tsn/Kconfig | 32 + net/tsn/Makefile | 6 + net/tsn/tsn_configfs.c | 623 +++++++++++++++++++ net/tsn/tsn_core.c | 975 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/tsn/tsn_header.c | 203 +++++++ net/tsn/tsn_internal.h | 383 ++++++++++++ net/tsn/tsn_net.c | 403 ++++++++++++ 24 files changed, 5306 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/TSN/tsn.txt create mode 100644 drivers/media/avb/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/media/avb/avb_alsa.c create mode 100644 drivers/media/avb/tsn_iec61883.h create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_tsn.c create mode 100644 include/linux/tsn.h create mode 100644 include/trace/events/tsn.h create mode 100644 net/tsn/Kconfig create mode 100644 net/tsn/Makefile create mode 100644 net/tsn/tsn_configfs.c create mode 100644 net/tsn/tsn_core.c create mode 100644 net/tsn/tsn_header.c create mode 100644 net/tsn/tsn_internal.h create mode 100644 net/tsn/tsn_net.c -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
