Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Introduction of rpmsg flow control service

[Mathieu Poirier]

Hi Arnaud,

I added your patchset to my review list.  Unfortunately it sits behind
a sizable backlog and as such I won't be able to get to it for some
time.

Thanks,
Mathieu

On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 02:30, Arnaud Pouliquen
<arnaud.pouliquen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series proposes an implementation for the rpmsg virtio transport
> backend, of the signaling API proposed by Deepak Kumar Singh:
> "rpmsg and glink signaling API support" [1]
>
> The aim of the series is to offer the possibility for an endpoint to inform
> a remote endpoint about its state, based on a software flow control[2].
>
> For this a new rpmsg service( with a fixed address 64) is proposed.
> It is responsible for:
> - transmitting local endpoint flow control information to the remote side,
> - informing a local endpoint about a remote endpoint flow control.
>
> For the rpmsg virtio transport layer the service is negotiated thanks to the
> virtio feature flag: VIRTIO_RPMSG_F_FC
>
> Notice that this pull request introduces new feature in the rpmsg protocol,
> So it has to be aligned with OpenAMP implementation.
> Pending OpenAMP pull request is available here:
> https://github.com/OpenAMP/open-amp/pull/394
>
>
> [1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/18/867
> [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_flow_control
>
> Arnaud Pouliquen (8):
>   rpmsg: core: Add rpmsg device remote flow control announcement ops
>   rpmsg: virtio: Implement the announce_remote_fc ops
>   rpmsg: Introduce flow control channel driver
>   rpmsg: virtio: Add support of the VIRTIO_RPMSG_F_FC feature
>   rpmsg: virtio: Implement the set_flow_control ops
>   rpmsg: Add the destination address in rpmsg_set_flow_control
>   rpmsg: tty : Add the support of the flow control
>   rpmsg: virtio: Set default dst address on flow control
>
> Deepak Kumar Singh (2):
>   rpmsg: core: Add signal API support
>   rpmsg: char: Add TIOCMGET/TIOCMSET ioctl support
>
>  drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig            |  11 +++
>  drivers/rpmsg/Makefile           |   1 +
>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c       |  56 +++++++++++++--
>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c       |  47 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_fc.c         | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h   |   9 +++
>  drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/tty/rpmsg_tty.c          |  50 ++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/rpmsg.h            |  15 ++++
>  include/linux/rpmsg/fc.h         |  51 ++++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_fc.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/rpmsg/fc.h
>
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> 2.25.1
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